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· collected 2026-07-31 · by Ian Aikman, Ottilie Mitchell, Adam Easton
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has branded a Russian missile attack that killed five members of the same family a "horrific crime".
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Zelensky shared a picture of the Voronov family on social media, writing that parents Artem and Olena and three of their children - Mark, Azariah Ilay, and Emilia - had all been killed after a missile decimated their home.
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missile → share → home
Their other children - Zakhar, Dominika, Viorika, Federica, and a grandson Artem - are also still missing after Russia launched more than 70 missiles and over 280 drones overnight.
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The attack - which officials said had killed eight people - comes after Zelensky met US President Donald Trump in Washington DC this week to urge the US to grant Ukraine a licence to produce Patriot interceptor missiles.
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"Today, the Russians destroyed an ordinary home of an ordinary family in Radushne near Kryvyi Rih in our Dnipropetrovsk region with a strike from their ballistic missile," Zelensky wrote on X on Thursday.
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It is definitively known that the parents and three children perished.
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parents → know → ?
The Russian missile strike was so powerful that almost nothing remained of the house…
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Under the rubble, fragments of human bodies were found, and only forensic examinations can determine to whom exactly in the family those bodies belong.
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"This Russian evil can only be stopped by the entire world.
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No one in the world can be left alone against such terror.
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And when we say that Ukraine needs missiles for 'Patriots', when we seek capabilities to defend against Russian ballistics, we are not talking about abstractions."
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Local defence council chief Oleksandr Vilkul said two private homes had been destroyed in the attacks.
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Another eight people were wounded, including an 84-year-old woman who was taken to hospital, and two children who were pulled from the rubble alive, officials added.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said an object that crashed into a field in eastern Poland in the early hours of Thursday was probably a Russian missile.
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Ukraine's acting Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha had earlier said a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile had "crossed into Poland as part of Russia's massive strike against Ukraine, violating Nato airspace".
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Ukraine had been expecting a Russian offensive, with Zelensky warning just hours before the strikes that Moscow was preparing for a "massive attack".
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In Kyiv, one person died and fires broke out in three non-residential buildings overnight, the capital's mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
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The mayor of Poltava also reported a death, which came after he said a Nova Poshta postal terminal had been attacked.
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There were also explosions in Lviv and mayor Andriy Sadovyi said residential buildings had been damaged.
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Multiple people were injured with some trapped under a building, he added, saying residents were helping rescuers to clear the rubble.
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In neighbouring Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk was heading to the site of a 10m-crater (33ft), after "a violation of Polish airspace occurred" during Russia's attack on Lviv.
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Polish armed forces said they had mobilised on-duty fighter jets during the strikes, after detecting at least a dozen missiles over western Ukraine that could have posed a threat to Polish airspace.
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The closest one was observed about 5km from the Polish border at 03:29, after which it changed direction and headed eastwards.
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The military said they had subsequently located the crater with scattered debris on Polish soil - in a field about 2km away from the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia, Lublin province, in the south.
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The site has been secured, they said.
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Police said they had received a report of a powerful explosion in the area.
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Poland's prime minister said the crater was likely caused by a Russian missile, but investigations were still ongoing.
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"All the indications are that it was a Russian Kh-101 ballistic missile, but we want to be 100% certain about the type of missile and who launched it," Donald Tusk said at a specially convened meeting in Lublin.
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Meanwhile in Russia, a regional official reported an overnight attack on the warehouse of a retailer in the city of Penza.
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One person was injured at a Wildberries facility, Regional Governor Oleg Melnichenko posted on Telegram.
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Wildberries is often described as "Russia's Amazon" and its sites have been the target of recent Ukrainian attacks.
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The military action follows repeated calls by Ukraine's president to bolster Kyiv's anti-ballistic missile defences.
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"The protection of people's lives depends directly on their willingness, or lack of willingness, to provide air defence missiles," he wrote on X on Wednesday.
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The Patriot is one of the few air defence systems able to intercept ballistic missiles, which Russia has increasingly used to bombard Ukrainian cities.
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