Kyiv says Russian strikes killed six, together with a baby at a grocery store, as Moscow says Ukrainian strikes killed 4.
Revealed On 27 Jul 2026
Russian forces have killed no less than six individuals in Ukraine, in accordance with officers, after launching ballistic missile assaults on the capital, Kyiv, and strikes on different areas, together with a grocery store within the northern metropolis of Chernihiv.
The assaults on Sunday got here as Russian officers stated that Moscow-occupied areas of Ukraine had additionally come below hearth, with 4 individuals killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the occupied metropolis of Horlivka.
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Ukraine’s air power stated Russia had launched seven ballistic missiles and 136 drones at Ukraine in a single day. Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv cities have been all hit.
In northern Chernihiv, officers stated a Russian drone hit a grocery store, killing two individuals, together with a nine-year-old lady, and wounding 25 others.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the assault as a “deeply cynical drone strike on an odd grocery store”.
Within the jap metropolis of Kharkiv, one individual was killed and 16 others required medical consideration after a daytime drone assault, the native mayor stated.
“That is deliberate Russian terror with completely no army justification,” Zelenskyy stated.
Individually, Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov stated a glide bomb assault killed one individual and wounded six within the southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, which has been below heavy bombardment in latest months.
In Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated one blaze had damaged out on the seventh and eighth flooring of a multistorey condo block in a central district after the in a single day missile assault. Three individuals have been wounded within the capital, and pictures launched by the state emergency providers confirmed automobiles in flames.
In Sloviansk, one in every of a number of targets of Russia’s gradual advance by means of jap Ukraine’s Donetsk area, the nationwide oil and gasoline firm Naftogaz stated two of its workers died in a Russian assault whereas making an attempt to assist residents affected by an earlier strike.
In Horlivka, a metropolis within the Russian-occupied a part of the Donetsk area, Russian-installed Mayor Ivan Prikhodko stated 4 civilians had been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike. Prikhodko later stated a Ukrainian drone hit an emergency car, injuring three medics and one other resident.
At the least 12 individuals, together with two kids, have been additionally harm in a Ukrainian drone assault on Belgorod, a Russian metropolis near the Ukrainian border, Russian authorities reported.
The assaults got here a day after Moscow stated a Ukrainian strike on a Russian-occupied city on the Azov Sea killed 12 individuals.
Each Moscow and Kyiv deny concentrating on civilians within the battle that began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February 2022. However civilian casualty charges have climbed sharply in 2026 in each Russia and Ukraine, in accordance with the United Nations.
Analysts say that is due to the rising use of short-range drones, glide bombs, and intensified strikes on infrastructure in each Russia and Ukraine.
UN officers say 1,396 civilians have been killed and seven,978 wounded in Ukraine within the first six months of 2026. In Russia, 250 civilians have been killed and 1,596 injured.
United States-led talks on ending preventing have stalled. The Kremlin occupies swaths of jap and southern Ukraine and has repeatedly stated it intends to grab the remainder of jap Ukraine by power.
