Overview
- Rescue teams in Kyiv continued searching through rubble after a multi-vector assault overnight into July 2 that officials say has left around 30 people dead and scores wounded as tallies rose over two days.
- Ukrainian authorities reported the strikes hit residential blocks, damaged hospitals and an ambulance depot, and sparked multiple fires and partial building collapses across the capital.
- Ukrainian and Western accounts described the attack as a combination of dozens of cruise and ballistic missiles plus hundreds of attack drones, with some reports citing about 74 missiles and more than 500 drones.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky cut short a visit to Dublin after receiving intelligence warnings and has asked partners for accelerated air-defence deliveries and production licences for interceptors such as Patriot missiles.
- Analysts say the barrage underlines Moscow's ability to conduct long-range strikes even as its ground offensive remains largely stalled, a dynamic that is likely to push Western governments toward faster weapons deliveries and tougher sanctions on Russia.