NATO member scrambles fighter jets as Russian attack on Ukraine kills 8

Poland, the closest NATO subordinate to the Ukraine-Russia war, scrambled combatant jets and placed its aerial defenses connected precocious alert aboriginal Thursday arsenic Russia launched much than 70 missiles and astir 280 drones crossed Ukraine, sidesplitting astatine slightest 8 and wounding dozens from Kyiv to the occidental metropolis of Lviv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, conscionable returning from this week's U.S. sojourn with President Donald Trump and the ceremonial of precocious Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the barrage exposed a captious shortage of Western-supplied interceptors, peculiarly against ballistic missiles.

"The extortion of people’s lives depends straight connected their willingness" to supply Ukraine with air-defense missiles, Zelenskyy said of Kyiv’s allies.

Hours aboriginal Thursday morning, the European Union disbursed $4 cardinal to Ukraine to concern the procurement of much drones, missiles, aerial defence and combatant jets, according to the European Commission.

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Ukrainian firefighters enactment to extinguish a occurrence astatine a marketplace pursuing a Russian rocket onslaught successful Kyiv connected overnight into Thursday morning. Russian strikes killed astatine slightest 8 radical and wounded much than a twelve others crossed Ukraine, authorities said, triggering renewed calls from Kyiv for its allies to nonstop aerial defence supplies. (AFP)

The disbursement is portion of a much than $100 cardinal indebtedness approved by the EU earlier this twelvemonth and

This disbursement follows the astir $3.5 cardinal installment June 25 and $4.5 cardinal connected June 30.

Polish forces detected an unidentified entity moving westbound done the country’s airspace soon earlier 4 a.m. An F-16 was dispatched to intercept it, but the entity disappeared from radar minutes later. Authorities subsequently recovered a crater astir 33 feet wide and scattered debris successful farmland adjacent Tarnawa-Kolonia, astir 1.2 miles from the closest buildings.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said archetypal grounds indicated the entity was a Russian Kh-101 missile, though investigators were inactive moving to corroborate its benignant and origin.

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Emergency workers usage dense instrumentality to wide rubble from flat buildings successful Lviv, the western-most metropolis successful Ukraine and the closed to NATO-ally Poland, aft a Russian rocket onslaught Thursday, July 30, 2026. (Anadolu)

"All the indications are that it was a Russian Kh-101," Tusk said, adding that Polish forces were prepared to sprout it down if it had continued flying toward a populated area.

He added the U.S. is funny successful joining the investigation, which has initially determined the rocket was not intended for Poland territory. The destiny of the Ukraine-Russian warfare mightiness beryllium decided wrong the adjacent 100 days, Tusk told reporters.

The menace to a NATO state is simply a caller frontier successful the long-running warfare and comes aft Zelenskyy pressed senators to beforehand Graham's sweeping sanctions package. Also, Trump and Zelenskyy discussed U.S. licenses allowing Ukraine to nutrient Patriot interceptors, on with different defence practice and efforts to revive stalled diplomacy with Moscow.

Six people, including 2 girls ages 5 and 12, were killed erstwhile a Russian Iskander-M ballistic rocket struck a backstage location lodging a ample household adjacent Kryvyi Rih, according to section officials. Seven others were reported killed successful Kyiv and elsewhere successful the Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions arsenic the casualty number roseate during rescue operations.

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"A acheronian night," Oleksandr Vilkul, the caput of Kryvyi Rih’s defence council, wrote connected Telegram. Eight radical were wounded successful the onslaught connected the home.

The idiosyncratic killed successful Kyiv was a 31-year-old man, portion 2 others were wounded, according to Ukrainian police. Russian strikes damaged residential buildings, vehicles, retention facilities, a marketplace and a store analyzable successful the capital, wherever aerial raid warnings lasted much than 5 hours and thousands of residents sheltered successful subway stations.

In Lviv, astir 40 miles from the Polish border, exigency crews searched damaged flat buildings for radical trapped beneath factual and debris. Thirty people, including children, were reported injured. More than 20 residential buildings, a schoolhouse and 2 kindergartens were damaged, officials said.

"I was terrified watching the rescuers spell beneath those factual slabs," 1 Lviv nonmigratory told Reuters arsenic crews pulled a lad from a damaged building.

Ukraine’s aerial unit said its defenses intercepted 55 missiles and 265 drones. But lone 1 of 9 ballistic missiles was changeable down, portion 11 missiles and 17 drones struck targets astatine 20 locations.

The U.S.-made Patriot is the lone strategy presently successful Ukraine’s arsenal susceptible of reliably intercepting Russian ballistic missiles, which question astatine respective times the velocity of sound. Zelenskyy has repeatedly warned that Patriot interceptors are arriving excessively dilatory and successful insufficient numbers.

During his Tuesday gathering with Trump, Zelenskyy said the leaders discussed licenses for Patriot interceptor accumulation successful Ukraine. He besides met with Lockheed Martin executives and told senators that home accumulation would beryllium a semipermanent solution but would not code Ukraine’s contiguous shortage of missiles. European countries person offered to wage for further U.S.-made interceptors.

Zelenskyy’s Washington sojourn coincided with Senate information of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, named for the longtime defence hawk and outspoken Ukraine protagonist who died unexpectedly earlier this month.

The Senate voted 86-12 Tuesday to wide an archetypal procedural hurdle and voted 84-12 Wednesday to formally proceed to the legislation. Additional votes were inactive required earlier last passage.

The bundle would enforce sanctions connected Russian officials, oligarchs, fiscal institutions, vigor projects and vessels accused of helping Moscow evade existing restrictions. It would besides authorize tariffs of up to 100% connected goods from the 5 largest purchasers of Russian lipid and earthy state and the starring countries facilitating sanctions evasion.

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Graham negotiated the revised bundle with the White House soon earlier his death. The authorities besides includes an hold of sanctions targeting Iran’s vigor and weapons sectors, a proviso sought by the Trump administration.

Zelenskyy met with a bipartisan radical of senators earlier the procedural votes and called the authorities an important awesome to Russia, Europe and the Ukrainian people. He watched the Senate ballot from the chamber’s assemblage aft attending Graham’s ceremonial astatine Washington National Cathedral.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.