- KYIV, UKRAINE — JULY 31, 2025 — RESTRICTION: USERS MUST CREDIT "STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAINE" HANDOUT, MUST NOT OBSCURE LOGO — EDITORIAL USE ONLY — At least 11 people were killed, including one child, in Russian attacks on Kyiv, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported on Thursday, July 31.

Rescue teams, aided by service dogs, continue to search through the rubble in an effort to recover bodies.

According to the Kyiv City Military Administration, the strikes targeted multiple districts, with the areas of Solomianskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, and Holosiivskyi among the hardest hit.

The attack damaged at least 27 locations across the capital, with residential areas heavily affected.

Russian forces reportedly used over 300 drones and multiple missiles in the assault, part of an ongoing escalation in strikes against Ukrainian cities.

Russia started its "special military operation" in Ukraine in February 2022 to "denazify" and "demilitarize" Ukraine.

According to its memorandum for the settlement of the conflict, Moscow has demanded a ban on Kyiv joining military alliances and withdrawal of Ukraine's troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, the regions it annexed after a referendum in September 2022, among others.

Ukraine has called the terms an "ultimatum" and has called for a ceasefire as a prerequisite for meaningful talks.