8 July 2024 Ukraine missile strikes

Significance

On 8 July 2024, Russian forces launched a mass missile attack against multiple Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, Kropyvnytskyi, and Pokrovsk. More than forty missiles were fired, killing at least 47 people and wounding approximately 170. The strike was among the deadlier single-day mass-casualty attacks of the full-scale war, demonstrating Russia's continued use of long-range missile barrages against Ukrainian population centers. The simultaneous targeting of cities across different regions underscored the breadth of the campaign to pressure Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and morale during the conflict's third year.