F firefighters extinguishing a fire in warehouse damaged following Russian missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
Russian missile strikes wound 11 in Kyiv: Zelensky
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A new Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian capital on Saturday wounded 11 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
"Eleven people, including a child, have been injured in Kyiv during last night's Russian attack," Zelensky wrote on X.
AFP correspondents in Kyiv reported hearing two rounds of explosions in the early hours of Saturday as authorities warned of an incoming Russian missile attack.
Zelenskyy said Russia targeted Ukraine with "more than 120 drones and 12 missiles, half of them ballistic missiles," adding that Ukrainian air defenses were unable to intercept any of the ballistic missiles.
Serhii Sternenko, an adviser to Ukraine's Defense Ministry, said on Telegram that Russia may have used missiles from the S-400 air defense system in the attack.
The missiles were originally designed to strike aerial targets, but Moscow has previously used them in a ballistic role against ground targets.
Sternenko said the missiles are "more difficult" for radar systems to detect, adding that "there is no military logic behind these attacks."
Kyiv has faced intensified Russian strikes since June, while Ukraine is currently facing a shortage of interceptor missiles needed to counter the growing number of Russian ballistic missile attacks.
Thirty people were killed during a large-scale bombardment overnight on July 1-2.
On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, a preliminary agreement allowing Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptor missiles.
