Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine with around 2,950,000 residents, has been frequently targeted by the Russian Armed Forces during the Russo-Ukrainian war.
== Overview == An attempt to capture the city was made in February–April 2022, but the Russian forces were repelled. Since then attacks have been carried remotely through airstrikes. Since October 2022 Kyiv has been occasionally attacked by Iranian-made drones on Russian service. From the start of the invasion on 24 February 2022 until 28 May 2023, the air raid siren has been on in Kyiv for a total 887 hours (or around 36 days). Kyiv has 1,078 bomb shelters, but in June 2023 a government commission found that only half of them are usable. Kyiv endured 1,300 drone and over 250 missiles attacks in 200 airstrikes by Russian forces in 2024. There were 500 air raid alerts throughout said year, resulting in 550 damages to residential buildings, with daily power outage averaging nine hours. By October 2026, 534 people were killed in Kyiv from strikes. Strikes continued into 2025, with the July 3/4 overnight airstrike launching a record number of drones and missiles targeting Kyiv metropolitan area (KMA), breaking the daily record of Russian long-range drones launched across Ukraine since beginning of the invasion. Further escalations occurred on July 8/9, with 728 drones and 11 missiles targeting KMA and ten out of Ukraine's 23 oblasts. In January 2026, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 600,000 residents left the capital after the Russian strikes on 9 January left half of all residential buildings without heating. Due to strikes in early February, Kyiv residents had electricity for less than two hours a day. After the 2026 Starobilsk strike, Russia called foreign diplomats and civilians to evacuate Kyiv, as it threatened with retaliatory airstrikes against the city. The three deadliest strikes were the 29 December 2023 attack which left 33 dead; the 31 July 2025 attack; and the 2 July 2026 attack, both leaving 31 people killed. The Myla airstrike, a village west of Kyiv, left 38 dead. After US President Donald Trump reduced the resupply of Ukraine with Patriot missile interceptors in 2026, Russia increased its attacks with ballistic missiles against Ukraine by 83% in July 2026 compared to July 2025. On 10 October 2022, Amnesty International wrote that the "ultimate goal" of attacks against Kyiv is to "spread terror among the entire civilian population". Human Rights Watch confirmed that Russian armed forces used cluster munition in a ballistic missile attack on Nova Poshta sorting center in Kyiv on 5 August 2026. It thus found Russian forces guilty of war crime of indiscriminate attack on civilians.
List of strikes
See also
List of military engagements during the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure (2022–present) Russian war crimes
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