{"id":1423595,"date":"2026-08-01T10:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kyiv-experienced-massive-ballistic-missile-attack-what-is-known-about-the-consequences\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:33:03","slug":"kyiv-experienced-massive-ballistic-missile-attack-what-is-known-about-the-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/kyiv-experienced-massive-ballistic-missile-attack-what-is-known-about-the-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv experienced massive ballistic missile attack: what is known about the consequences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of August 1, Russian forces launched a massive ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. The shelling killed nine people and wounded more than 30 others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Air Force, a total of 358 airborne attack weapons were detected \u2013 35 missiles and 185 UAVs of various types. These included four Zircon\/Onyx anti-ship missiles launched from the Kursk region and the Rostov region, as well as 27 Iskander-M\/S-400 ballistic missiles launched from the Bryansk and Kursk regions.<\/p>\n<p>The missile defense team managed to shoot down 154 UAVs and only one ballistic missile. According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the low ballistic missile kill rate is due to a shortage of interceptors for the Patriot systems.<\/p>\n<p>The strike damaged multi-story buildings in various districts of Kyiv, particularly in the Solomensky and Darnitsky districts.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1423595-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_3744-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_3744-1.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_3744-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-01_08-53-54.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Some people died right on the streets while trying to find shelter. Such incidents were particularly observed in Kyiv&#8217;s Darnytskyi district. Seventeen injured people are in hospitals. Medical personnel are providing them with all necessary care.<\/p>\n<p>In total, seven districts in the capital were affected. 18 residential buildings, a school, the Lithuanian embassy, and infrastructure were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The enemy also struck twice at the Kyivmedspetstrans organization, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The strikes destroyed five ambulances and damaged another 20 vehicles serving Kyiv&#8217;s hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-has-launched-a-massive-strike-on-ukraine-there-are-casualties-including-children\/\">the Russians launched their previous massive strike on Ukraine on July 30<\/a>. Lviv suffered the most, but Kyiv was also shelled.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of August 1, Russian forces launched a massive ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. The shelling killed nine people and wounded more than 30 others. According to the Air Force, a total of 358 airborne attack weapons were detected \u2013 35 missiles and 185 UAVs of various types. These included four Zircon\/Onyx anti-ship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1423584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76874,76928],"class_list":["post-1423595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-war","category-kyiv-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423597,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423595\/revisions\/1423597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}