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Get you up to speed: Zelensky says lack of US Patriot missiles left Kyiv wide open to Russian blitz | News World
Russia launched ballistic missiles on Kyiv this morning, resulting in at least nine fatalities and 28 injuries, including four children. The attack affected seven districts, damaging residential buildings and causing multiple fires, with reports of significant destruction in the Solomyanskyi district.
Emergency response teams remain active in Kyiv, focusing on extinguishing fires and rescuing individuals trapped in damaged buildings. President Volodymyr Zelensky has highlighted the urgent need for additional air defence capabilities, emphasising that Ukraine’s limited arsenal is contributing to rising civilian casualties during ongoing attacks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that the country’s air defence system is dwindling, emphasising the urgent need for ballistic missile interceptors to protect civilians. In response, Ukraine has asked the United States for a licence to manufacture its own Patriot interceptors, with US President Donald Trump confirming that discussions are ongoing.
What remains unclear — It is uncertain how many additional casualties or injuries occurred due to the fires and explosions in the seven districts affected by the missile strikes.
Zelensky warns US’s lack of Patriot missiles leaves Kyiv vulnerable to Russian attacks
Russia pounded Kyiv with ballistic missiles this morning, killing at least nine people and wounding 28 others, including four children.
The Ukrainian Air Force raised the alarm over the missiles at around 1.30am local time.
Kyiv military officials asked civilians to duck into their nearest shelter only a minute later, with Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko reporting ‘explosions’.
Images posted by photographer Yan Dobronosov show wounded people lying on the streets, with cars gutted by the explosions and fires.
‘Some residents of Kyiv did not even have time to reach the shelter,’ Dobronosov said.
One of the blasts caused a fire in a six-story building in the Solomyanskyi district, Volodymyr Zelensky said on the social media network X.
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Since last night, response efforts have been underway in Kyiv and the surrounding region following Russia’s strike. There were numerous fires across the city. Seven districts were affected, and, as usual, the Russians struck ordinary residential buildings. Eighteen residential… pic.twitter.com/Fr8Jb4AEys
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 1, 2026
‘There were many fires in the city – seven districts were affected. And, as usual, the Russians hit ordinary residential buildings,’ he added.
‘Eighteen houses, a school, the Lithuanian embassy and infrastructure facilities were damaged.’
Two people died in the Solomianskyi blaze that also injured eight, including two children.
People were also trapped in a burning building in Shevchenko and debris flattened non-residential buildings in Holosiivske and Darnytske.
Some five years since Russia’s war against Ukraine began, Zelensky warned the country’s air defence system is dwindling.
And Moscow knows this, the president added, with Russia launching dozens of aerial assaults this summer.
A residential building was engulfed in flames (Picture: AFP)
Several ‘explosions’ rang out, the mayor said (Picture: Reuters)
Zelensky said that as the country has only a few Patriot interceptors – the only kind that can deal with Kremlin-built missiles – it is ‘encouraging Russia to launch attacks that take human lives’.
‘It is critical that partners hear that these capabilities are needed not somewhere in stockpiles for hypothetical scenarios, but here and now, to contain and stop the Russian war in Ukraine.’
‘Every package of ballistic missile interceptors saves the lives of our people. And every night without them results in more casualties. I thank everyone who is working to strengthen our defences.’
This is the second major attack on Kyiv this week after missiles killed nine people, including six members of one family, on Thursday.
During the attack, a Russian cruise missile also entered the airspace of Nato member Poland.
Polish officials described it as an ‘unidentified object’ that caused a 9-metre-wide crater in a field in the country’s southeast.
Nine people died in the blasts (Picture: EPA)
Kyiv has asked Washington to let it make its own interceptors (Picture: Reuters)
Only the US can make Patriot interceptor missiles, so Ukraine has asked Washington to grant it a licence to make its own.
US President Donald Trump, who vowed to end the Russia-Ukraine war ‘on day one’ of his re-election, said talks for this are still ‘ongoing’ on Friday.
Washington, he cautioned, had to be ‘very careful about letting somebody build them’.
He added: ‘ We’re talking about it, but it’s a hard thing to give away that kind of technology. And I don’t think this would ever happen, but, you know, there’s people that you give that technology, they can someday turn on you.’
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Hamburg Pride event attracts 250,000 amid heightened security measures
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Hamburg’s annual Pride event witnessed an expected attendance of around 250,000 people amid heightened security following a deadly attack near Berlin’s Pride parade.
Hamburg’s annual Pride event witnessed an expected attendance of around 250,000 people amid heightened security following a deadly attack near Berlin’s Pride parade.
Increased security
Hamburg’s Pride event deployed approximately double the police presence compared to last year, reflecting heightened concerns for safety following the recent attack near Berlin’s parade.
Hamburg’s Pride event deployed approximately double the police presence compared to last year, reflecting heightened concerns for safety following the recent attack near Berlin’s parade.
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“I say, now more than ever, let’s all take to the streets, stand up for diversity, for freedom, for an open society, and above all, in full solidarity with and for the queer community,” stated Hamburg’s deputy mayor, Katharina Fegebank.
“I say, now more than ever, let’s all take to the streets, stand up for diversity, for freedom, for an open society, and above all, in full solidarity with and for the queer community,” stated Hamburg’s deputy mayor, Katharina Fegebank.
Hamburg celebrates Pride with increased security one week after deadly Berlin attack
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Hamburg celebrated its annual Pride event, one of Germany’s biggest, with increased security on Saturday, one week after a deadly attack near Berlin’s pride parade that shocked the country.
Organisers expected around 250,000 people to attend the parade, which this year has the motto “Queer in solidarity. Take a stand — for a future without fear.”
A late addition to the trucks taking part was one representing the Berlin Pride event — or Christopher Street Day, CSD for short, as the parades are known in Germany. People on that truck were asked to wear dark clothing as a sign of respect for the victims of last week’s attack, where one person was killed and 29 others injured.
Late on July 25, a man plowed a van into people a few hundred metres from the closing party of the Berlin Pride event before cutting others with what appears to have been a machete.
The 21-year-old suspect, Abdul Ballout, was killed in a confrontation with police on Sunday. Investigators later found a video in which a person believed to be the suspect claimed responsibility and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Prosecutors have said Ballout, who was born in Germany and has Lebanese roots, travelled to Lebanon in 2025 with the goal of going to Syria to join IS. He made contact with several people who were presumed members.
Hamburg’s police chief said earlier this week that roughly twice as many officers as last year would protect the Hamburg event.
“After the brutal attack on the CSD in Berlin, many are unsure in the queer community but also in society whether here and today is the right place,” Hamburg’s deputy mayor, Katharina Fegebank, told RTL television.
“I say, now more than ever, let’s all take to the streets, stand up for diversity, for freedom, for an open society, and above all, in full solidarity with and for the queer community,” she added.
“Well, when something like that happens, we all have to show that we’re not afraid, that we won’t let it get us down,” said Petra Schwab, who was attending Saturday’s Pride in Hamburg.
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