Russian missile and drone strikes kill 24 in Kyiv

Russia fired missiles and drones into apartment buildings in Kyiv for the second time in a week on Monday, killing at least 24 people on the eve of a crucial NATO summit, Ukrainian authorities said. The attack came just days after another Russian strike killed more than 30 people in the Ukrainian capital.  The morning strike punched a crater into a multi-storey apartment block in Kyiv's Podilsky district, ripping its floors in two.
President Volodymyr Zelensky decried the "brutal strike", saying that "the Russians' tactics are unchanged: to inflict as much pain and damage as possible on Ukrainians and on Ukraine." Zelensky – expected to hold talks with US counterpart Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Turkey – pleaded for the alliance to boost Ukraine's air defence against Russia's ballistic missiles. He said Kyiv was successful in shooting down drones and cruise missiles but had "not enough means of defence" against hard-to-intercept ballistic missiles. "It is simply absurd that in the modern world, production has still not been organised to the extent that is necessary to protect people from ballistic terror," he said in the aftermath of the strikes.
Russia's defence ministry said the "massive strike" had targeted what it described as "military-industrial enterprises", fuel and energy facilities in several Ukrainian regions. Earlier, NATO chief Mark Rutte said in Ankara: "Allies and NATO partners must continue to ensure Ukraine gets what it needs."
Ukraine's military carried out an attack on the Russian city of Yaroslavl overnight on July 6, reportedly striking the city's oil refinery, Russian Telegram media channels reported.