🔴 Live: Zelensky says Russia fired North Korean missiles at Zaporizhzhia
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By: FRANCE 24 Residents stand at the site of a supermarket warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 5, 2026. © Gleb Garanich, Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russia fired North Korean missiles in an overnight attack that killed six and wounded 19 in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia. At least six people were killed and 20 injured in the attacks. Follow our live blog for the latest developments.
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that Russian forces had taken control of two settlements in Ukraine – Shcherbakivka in the Kharkiv region, and Nove Pole in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield report.
The Ukrainian military said it attacked an oil refinery in the Russian city of Orsk, the second-largest city in the Orenburg region and an important industrial hub.
In a statement on Telegram, the Ukrainian military said it had targeted the Orsknefteorgsintez oil refinery, which has an annual crude oil capacity of 6 million tons. “Fire was recorded. Damages are being ascertained,” it said.
The Orsk refinery produces gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel, fuel oil, bitumen, and other petroleum products.
Zelensky said Tuesday that Russia fired North Korean missiles in an overnight attack that killed six and wounded 19 in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia.
"The city was struck with North Korean ballistic missiles, Zircons, and guided aerial bombs," he said, referring to Russia's hypersonic cruise missile system, Zircon.
Residents stand at a site of a Russian missile and air strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. © Stringer, Reuters
A firefighter works at a compound of a warehouse hit by an overnight missile strike in Kyiv. © Handout via Reuters
An employee stands among debris at a compound of the City Children's Clinical Infectious Disease Hospital in Kyiv, which was hit by an overnight missile strike. © Valentyn Ogirenko, Reuters
An industrial enterprise was on fire in Russia's Orenburg region after an attack by "enemy drones", the local governor said on Tuesday. There had been no reports of casualties, Yevgeny Solntsev said.
A drone attack killed one person and injured two others in Russia's Voronezh region overnight, while falling debris triggered fires at warehouse facilities, Alexander Gusev, the regional governor, said on Tuesday.
Russia's air defence units destroyed 15 drones over the city of Voronezh and five districts of the region, Gusev said on Telegram.
"A drone crash caused fires at two warehouses of a large company. At one facility, the fire has been contained to an area of 16,000 square meters, while at the other, a blaze covering 20,000 square metres is being extinguished. Emergency services are on scene," the governor said.
He did not identify the company whose warehouses were affected.
Earlier on Tuesday, Russian online retailer Wildberries said its logistics facilities in the Voronezh region had been evacuated in accordance with safety requirements.
Former Ukrainian detainees and Ukrainian officials accused Russia on Monday of systematically torturing prisoners of war and civilian detainees, holding captives incommunicado and subjecting them to beatings, electric shocks and sexual abuse, with thousands still in captivity.
Russia rejected the allegations made at an informal UN Security Council meeting, with its Deputy UN Representative Maria Zabolotskaya calling it "a disinformation campaign" and alleging that Russian prisoners in Ukraine were subjected to "torture and degradation and moral and physical abuse".
Khuan Alberto Levya Garsiya, still an active member of the Ukrainian military, said his Russian captors subjected him to every imaginable form of torture during 1,183 days in captivity.
In the year since Donald Trump hosted Vladimir Putin on US soil for a summit designed to broker an end to Russia's offensive on Ukraine, the diplomatic initiative has fizzled out and the conflict has escalated.
For months, Russian officials talked up the "spirit of Anchorage" – a supposed climate of détente, renewed dialogue with Washington and a framework for finding a way out of the deadliest European conflict since World War II.
Now there are few traces of that atmosphere. US mediation efforts are at a standstill, both Russia and Ukraine are ramping up attacks and more civilians are being killed than at any point since the first months of the war.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on social media that the capital was "under ballistic missile attack".
He said emergency services had been sent to Shevchenkivsky district, while city authorities said at least one person had been wounded.
Air raid sirens had begun to sound shortly before the blasts were heard.
In Zaporizhzhia, Fedorov said earlier that Russian forces had struck industrial facilities and infrastructure.
"The Russians attacked industrial facilities and infrastructure," he said on Telegram. "A garage cooperative and residential buildings were damaged."
A Russian attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed five people and wounded 20, the regional governor said early on Tuesday.
"Five people killed, a further 20 wounded: sadly, the number of casualties continues to rise following the enemy attack on Zaporizhzhia," Ivan Fedorov, the head of the regional military administration, said on Telegram.
In Zaporizhzhia, in the southeast of Ukraine, another nightly Russian attack injured at least nine people, wrote the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, on Telegram.
Russian forces "attacked industrial facilities and infrastructure," he said.
At least one person was injured in Kiev, the capital's military administration said, without providing further details.
Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with missiles early on Tuesday, triggering fires in the city centre, officials said.
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