At least five members of same family killed in Russian missile attack, Zelensky says

Five members if the Voronov family were killed, Zelensky said, with others missing Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has branded a Russian missile attack that killed five members of the same family a "horrific crime". 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. 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. The worst attack was near Zelensky's hometown of Kryvyi Rih.

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Scoop News DeskRussian · Published Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 3:20 PM UTCUpdated Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 7:43 PM UTC

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Missile that left crater deep inside Poland was probably Russian - Polish PM 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. "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. "It is definitively known that the parents and three children perished. 1 dead — five members of the Watch: Aftermath of Radushne strike, as Kyiv residents seek shelter 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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