A large-scale overnight Russian attack using more than seventy missiles and over 280 drones killed at least eight civilians, including three children, across Ukraine on 30 July, according to Ukrainian officials. The combined strike reached from Kyiv to Lviv, destroying dozens of homes, businesses, and infrastructure facilities. In the deadliest single incident, a ballistic missile struck a private house in the village of Radushne, near Kryvyi Rih, obliterating the building and killing six members of the same family; two other children were pulled alive from the rubble.

Ukrainian air-defence units intercepted fifty-five cruise missiles and more than 260 drones, but managed to shoot down only one of the nine ballistic missiles launched, the country’s air force reported. President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking on social media, called the strikes “Russian terror” that proved the urgent need for anti-ballistic systems. He blamed the civilian toll on a “critical shortage of air-defence missiles from our partners” and noted that delays in delivering such weapons directly cause destruction and casualties of this kind. His appeal came just days after a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington, where, according to Zelensky, the two discussed licensing Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptor missiles, though no timeline or concrete plan has been released.

The Russian Defence Ministry described the operation as a “massive strike” targeting military airfields, arms factories, telecommunications centres, and logistics facilities in Kyiv, Lviv, and several other regions. Moscow also claimed hits on cargo vessels in the ports of Yuzhny and Odesa that it said were transporting weapons. Meanwhile, a projectile that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said was very likely a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile violated Polish airspace during the barrage, creating a ten-metre-wide crater in a field in Lublin province. Tusk convened an emergency coordination team, and the Polish military scrambled F-16 fighters after detecting the object, though radar contact was lost before interception. The incident drew condemnation from European Council President António Costa, who said the attack underscored that Russia’s aggression threatened the security of the entire European continent.

Ukrainian drone units struck back overnight, hitting a Wildberries warehouse in the Russian city of Penza, injuring one person and prompting an evacuation of around two hundred workers, according to the regional governor. The repeated strikes on the online retailer’s logistics network have damaged approximately ten per cent of its storage capacity, Moscow acknowledged. The Polish government has opened an investigation into the airspace violation, while Ukraine’s leadership continues to press its Western partners for accelerated supplies of interceptor missiles, warning that the battlefield calculus depends on the pace of those decisions.