A massive Russian missile attack on Monday, 26 August, killed 7 Ukrainians and injured 47 others. This was reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Komersant ukrainskyi reports
The State Emergency Service reported that work has been completed at all locations after the enemy’s massive attack in the morning.
The dismantling of the damaged five-storey residential building in Lutsk has also been completed.
“In total, 7 people were killed (2 of whom died in hospital) and 47 were injured, including 4 children born in 2014, 2017 and 2024,” the statement said.
Rescuers extinguished 22 fires. Two people were rescued.
In total, about 740 rescuers and 176 pieces of equipment were involved in the aftermath of the shelling.
Missile attack on Ukraine on 26 August: what we know
Another massive, combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine began at around 3:00 a.m. with an attack by numerous attack drones. Up to a dozen of these drones (such as the Shahed) approached Kyiv from different directions. However, the air defence forces and means destroyed all the enemy drones on the outskirts of the city.
And at around 5:00, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that the enemy had taken 11 Tu-95MS strategic bombers into the sky. The Ukrainian Navy recorded the launch of 4 Kalibr missile carriers, with a total volley of up to 28 missiles. Subsequently, the enemy took to the skies 6 Tu-22m3 strategic bombers, followed by 3 MiG-31Ks with Kinzhal missiles. This arsenal was supplemented by ballistic missile launches from Crimea and the western regions of Russia.
According to preliminary information, the main target of the complex, combined attack of all these numerous cruise, ballistic, aerial ballistic missiles and attack drones was infrastructure.
The Russian Armed Forces used
x-101/55 cruise missiles from 6 Tu-95s (Saratov region and the Caspian region);
zm14 Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea;
allegedly guided aircraft missiles of various types from the Azov Sea, Sumy and Belgorod regions;
x-22 supersonic cruise missiles from 6 Tu-22m3 aircraft from the territory of Kursk region of the Russian Federation;
9m723 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles;
x-47m2 supersonic ballistic missiles of the Kinzhal complex from the Lipetsk region of the Russian Federation;
UAVs of the Shahed and Gerbera types.
Lutsk, Stryi, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other settlements were under attack
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