Russian attacks across Ukraine killed six people, including a child, and wounded 29 others overnight, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday, as Kyiv also claimed to have damaged more than two dozen Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov. Ukraine’s General Staff said overnight strikes damaged 21 tankers used to transport oil and petroleum products, as well as four tugboats, two cargo ships and a dredging vessel.
Russia disputed the scale of the attack, saying only four ships had come under attack and that one person had been killed in the Ukrainian drone strikes.
In Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy region, four people, including a child, were killed and 17 others injured after two aerial glide bombs struck a crowded civilian area, according to regional governor Oleh Hryhorov.
In Kyiv, 11 people, including one child, were injured in overnight missile and drone attacks, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. Explosions and fires were reported in the capital’s Solomianskyi, Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts.
Eleven people, including a child, have been injured in Kyiv during last night's Russian attack. Civilian infrastructure was hit even before the air raid alert was issued. Emergency crews are working at the sites of the strikes – apartment buildings, offices, and a theological… pic.twitter.com/52C74SIS2x
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 11, 2026
In the southern Odesa region, two people were killed after a Russian missile hit a building, regional governor Oleh Kiper said. Another man was wounded by shrapnel.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched 12 missiles, including six ballistic missiles, and 121 drones overnight.
He said most of the drones and some of the missiles had been intercepted, but the ballistic missiles reached their targets, again highlighting what he described as Ukraine’s critical shortage of air defence systems.
Ukraine’s air force said it had shot down or electronically suppressed two missiles and 111 drones, adding that direct hits were recorded at 11 locations.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had targeted drone production facilities in Kyiv, as well as the ports of Izmail and Chornomorsk in Ukraine’s Odesa region.
The ministry also said Russian air defences destroyed 178 Ukrainian drones overnight over eight Russian regions, as well as over the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula and the Black and Azov seas.
Ukraine, which is critically low on munitions for its Patriot air defence systems, has been largely unable to down ballistic missiles, which travel at several times the speed of sound, over the past month.
It has pleaded with allies for greater supplies of those munitions, and it has also pushed Europe to work with Kyiv on its own anti-ballistic air defence system.
The death toll of today’s Russian glide bomb attack on the Sumy rises to 5, including a child.Dozens were also injured after several glide bombs hit the central parts of the city.Ukraine has released videos of parents shielding their children with their own bodies. pic.twitter.com/iuZvBiQh3a
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 11, 2026
US President Donald Trump said this week that Ukraine will be granted a licence to produce its own Patriot interceptor missiles. After Saturday’s attack, Zelenskyy called for those projects to move “as swiftly as possible.”
Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine’s capital in recent weeks. So far this month, strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region have killed more than 60 people.