Frozen copy retrieved 2026-08-05T11:30:00Z for audit 2026-08-05T11-43-22Z. Original URL: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/aug/5/russian-missile-drone-attack-ukrainian-capital-region-kills-17/. The Stochastic Parrot does not host or redistribute; this snapshot exists solely so that quoted spans remain verifiable if the original page changes. Character offsets below index into this plain text; highlighted spans are the quotes cited in the audit.

Russian missile and drone barrage in Ukrainian capital region kills 17

The Washington Times (AP wire) · back to the audit

Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded 44 others overnight into Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Ballistic interceptors are what could have saved the lives of those killed today. So everyone started running. Very loud, very loud explosions. We didn't even have time to grab our documents or anything else. In minutes, Russian missiles destroyed what the company had built over decades. Russian forces fired 24 ballistic missiles, four other missiles identified as either hypersonic Zircons or supersonic Oniks and 115 drones, many of them jet-powered. Ukraine intercepted 98 of the 115 drones but none of the missiles. The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces downed 475 Ukrainian drones overnight over 16 Russian regions. Ukrainian drones hit a Wildberries warehouse in the Tula region, the 14th Wildberries fire in under three weeks. Zelenskyy said first-half 2026 air-defense missile supplies fell to one-third of the 2025 level.