On the night of July 2, Russia delivered a massive combined strike on Kyiv — first with drones from multiple directions, then with ballistic missiles. One of the projectiles hit a building of an ambulance station in the Shevchenko District.
According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, among the wounded are paramedics and ambulance drivers. Two victims were hospitalized.
One of them, a paramedic, is in extremely critical condition. Currently, five victims are known — paramedics and ambulance drivers from the station.
— Vitali Klitschko, Kyiv Mayor
The same strike also hit a nine-story residential building in the Shevchenko District: according to United24 Media, apartments were destroyed from the first to the sixth floor, with several residents trapped under the rubble. In the Holosiyivsky District, the roof of a multi-story building caught fire.
Scale of the attack
Kyiv City Military Administration Chief Timur Tkachenko recorded damage at 28 locations across the city — residential buildings, a downtown hotel, a market, warehouses. According to him, "the enemy once again deliberately targets residential neighborhoods." As of the morning, at least eight people were killed and more than 34 injured, according to UNN.
The attack unfolded in several waves. On the evening of July 1, President Zelensky, while on a visit to Ireland, publicly warned of an impending massive strike and urgently returned to Kyiv.
Medics under fire — not for the first time
The strike on the ambulance station is not an isolated incident. According to Al Jazeera, in 2025 alone, 1,348 attacks on healthcare facilities have been recorded worldwide — twice as many as in 2024. Among them are numerous strikes on Ukrainian medical facilities and ambulances directly on the front lines.
The Geneva Conventions explicitly prohibit attacks on medical personnel and medical facilities — regardless of their location. The ambulance station is not a front-line object: it stands in a residential district of the capital.
Russia's Ministry of Defense, as always, claimed that it attacked only "military and energy infrastructure."
If the paramedic in critical condition survives — the details of the strike and the type of ammunition will become key for international documentation: it will be necessary to determine whether the station could have been identified as a medical facility at the moment of launch.
