KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say a Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, killed a number of people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounded dozens of others. A large part of a nine-story residential building collapsed after it was struck.
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Rescuers work in a destroyed apartment building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, centre, and Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, right, visit the site of a multi-storey residential building destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Rescuers work in a destroyed apartment building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Women react outside a destroyed apartment building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Rescuers work in a destroyed apartment building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A rescue worker puts out fire on a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Residential buildings heavily damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A local woman looks at a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A car is seen damaged after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Local women stand in front of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
