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Photos: Russia’s Constant Bombardment of Kyiv

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July 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Photos: Russia’s Constant Bombardment of Kyiv

The Ukrainian capital has been struck by thousands of Russian missiles and drones since the start of the invasion in 2022. Russia has recently stepped up its long-range attacks on the city, killing dozens in the past several weeks alone.

A woman looks up at a tall burning apartment building at night.
Danylo Antoniuk / AP
A woman looks up at a burning apartment building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 2, 2026. Russian missiles have hit sites across the country, but Kyiv’s infrastructure and residential areas are especially frequent targets.
A woman, wearing a shiny emergency blanket, carries a cat to safety.
Efrem Lukatsky / AP
A woman carries her cat out of a damaged multistory apartment building following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv on July 6, 2026.
Smoke from a large fire rises and spreads over a city.
Kostiantyn Liberov / Libkos / Getty
A panoramic view of Kyiv shows smoke from a large fire spreading over the city following an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on July 2, 2026. Russia’s overnight attack on the capital killed at least 31 people and injured 100 others.
Rescuers inside a cramped, partially collapsed apartment carry an injured woman on a stretcher.
Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
Rescuers carry a woman who was found under debris, inside an apartment building that was hit during overnight Russian missile and drone strikes in Kyiv on July 2, 2026.
Several rescue workers operate at a destroyed section of a residential building after a missile strike.
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Rescue workers operate at a destroyed section of a residential building after an explosion caused by a Russian strike on July 2, 2026.
A person walks next a damaged residential building, beneath rays of sunshine visible in dusty air.
Roman Pilipey / AFP / Getty
A person walks next a residential building damaged from a Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital on July 2, 2026.
People look at a crater beside a heavily damaged apartment building.
Efrem Lukatsky / AP
People look at the site of a Russian missile strike that hit a residential building on July 2, 2026.
A woman cries while holding a child near a damaged apartment building.
Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
A woman cries while holding a child near the site of a damaged apartment building on July 2, 2026.
A rocket intercepts a ballistic missile, seen as a small explosion high in a blue sky.
Evgeniy Maloletka / AP
A Ukrainian rocket intercepts a Russian ballistic missile during a Russian attack on Kyiv on June 25, 2026. Recent shortages of U.S.-made interceptors have allowed more Russian ballistic missiles to get through, striking their targets.
People take shelter, sitting on escalators in a metro station during a missile strike.
Serhii Okunev / AFP / Getty
People shelter in a Kyiv metro station during a Russian missile strike on June 15, 2026.
Smoke and sparks rise above a missile strike in a city, seen at night.
Gleb Garanich / Reuters
An explosion over the city, seen during a Russian missile and drone strike, on July 6, 2026
An aerial view of burned-down houses and damaged streets in a residential neighborhood
Libkos / Getty
An aerial view shows the scale of destruction, including burned-down houses and damaged streets, in Vyshneve, on the outskirts of Kyiv, following a Russian night attack on July 6, 2026. The attack caused secondary detonations for more than three hours, destroying or heavily damaging hundreds of homes and forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate.
Several people collect glass shards beside broken windows in a damaged building.
Marianna Kotyk / Reuters
Volunteers collect glass shards in a building at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio in Kyiv on June 19, 2026. The studio sustained significant damage during a large-scale missile and drone strike several days earlier. The costume shop, which housed the largest and oldest costume collection in Ukraine, was heavily affected.
Firefighters work to put out a fire at a historic cathedral in Ukraine.
Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, which was hit during Russian missile and drone strikes on June 15, 2026.
A firefighter stands amid debris from a damaged building, spraying water toward numerous fires in and around the building.
Danylo Antoniuk / AP
Emergency-services personnel work to extinguish a fire following Russian missile attacks in Kyiv on July 6, 2026.
An older woman sits in a room in an apartment, surrounded by debris and a broken window frame, after a nearby missile strike.
Danylo Antoniuk / AP
Liudmyla Tsapkova sits in her damaged apartment after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv on July 2, 2026.
Several rescue workers climb on the ruins of a heavily damaged apartment building.
Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
Rescuers work at the site of a damaged apartment building in Kyiv on July 2, 2026.
Three young people stand together, watching emergency workers (not seen) clearing debris.
Paula Bronstein / Getty
People watch as emergency workers clear debris from the scene of an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv that killed at least 14 people, on July 6, 2026.
A person carries damaged books, albums, and a wooden coat of arms from a burned apartment.
lina Smutko / Reuters
Iryna Plekhova, a resident who survived the previous day’s Russian missile strikes, carries some of her damaged personal belongings, including a Ukrainian coat of arms carved out of wood by her father-in-law, from her burned apartment on July 3, 2026.
Many people take shelter inside a metro station during an overnight missile and drone strike.
Alina Smutko / Reuters
People take shelter inside a metro station during an overnight Russian missile and drone strike on July 2, 2026.
A woman kneels next to a makeshift memorial beside a damaged residential building.
Tetiana Dzhafarova / AFP / Getty
A woman kneels next to a makeshift memorial near a residential building that was damaged during a Russian air attack on July 3, 2026.
People work to repair the burned and damaged roof of a historic cathedral.
Chris McGrath / Getty
Emergency-service personnel work to repair the burned and damaged roof of the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra after it was damaged by Russian strikes on June 16, 2026, in Kyiv, Ukraine.