President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy honored the memory of those killed at the site of a Russian strike on a residential building on the night of July 2 in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv.
A direct hit by a Russian missile destroyed 64 apartments in the nine-story building. Seventeen residents were rescued, including seven people who were pulled from under the rubble. Unfortunately, four people were killed as a result of this Russian attack on the apartment building.
Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko and Head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine Andriy Danyk reported to the Head of State that rescue operations and search efforts at the sites where homes were hit have been ongoing since night. In total, more than 130 sites were damaged in Kyiv, including 60 residential buildings. An ambulance station, a research institute, a hotel, and businesses also sustained damage. Damage has been recorded at more than 20 locations.
“I want to thank everyone who arrived at the sites of the strikes and is helping people – first and foremost the staff of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the National Police, and the EMS. Thank you all! People who need help must receive the necessary assistance. It is also important that local authorities not leave people to face their problems on their own. Some buildings have effectively been completely destroyed, and there are families who have lost everything they had,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
On the night of July 2, Russia launched another massive strike against Ukraine. As of now, 22 people have been reported killed. The main strike was aimed specifically at Kyiv, but that night there were also Russian strikes on Sumy, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions, as well as Zaporizhzhia and Cherkasy.
Russia used 74 missiles of various types, almost half of them ballistic, and 496 attack drones, including jet-powered “shaheds.”
“Our partners, primarily the United States and our European partners, need to be more proactive in providing assistance in this regard. Russia has no argument left for its war other than its ballistic missiles, this kind of terror. Putin still intends to “vanquish” residential buildings rather than end this war. And this can be countered both through sufficient supplies of anti-ballistic systems and through much faster work to develop Europe’s own anti-ballistic capabilities,” the President emphasized.