Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian civilians

In late July 2026, Russian forces intensified their missile campaign against Ukraine, striking civilian areas with high‑speed ballistic weapons. On 30 July, a combined Iskander‑M ballistic missile and a hypersonic Cyrkon projectile hit the outskirts of Krzywy Róg, the hometown region of President Volodymyr Zelensky, killing six people, including two children, and scattering debris into neighboring Poland. The following day, an Iskander missile struck a house in the village of Radushne, Dnipro region, killing six members of a single family, four of them children, and leaving several others missing. Ukrainian officials highlighted the attacks as evidence of a critical shortfall in air‑defence capability against such high‑speed missiles, while President Zelensky condemned the civilian toll. The incidents illustrate a pattern of Russian missile strikes targeting residential locations, causing civilian casualties and extending the conflict’s impact beyond Ukraine’s borders.