At least eight people were killed and dozens injured in another night of heavy Russian attacks on Ukraine, with neighbouring Poland also investigating a reported airspace violation and explosion on its territory.
Russia launched 74 missiles and 284 drones against targets in Ukraine, with casualties reported primarily in Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv regions.
“This Russian terror once again proves that protection against the Russian missile threat is the most important,” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in response to the attacks, adding Ukraine faced a “critical shortage of air defence missiles from our partners”.
Meanwhile, neighbouring Poland is examining an impact site in the east of the country after “an unidentified object moving westward was detected in Polish airspace” and crashed near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia, some 80 km from the Polish-Ukrainian border.
Local police said that officers investigating reports of a loud bang “discovered a crated and scattered debris from an unidentified object in a field located about 2 km from the nearest buildings.”
Separately, air raid sirens sounded in the eastern city of Lublin. The incident took place just hours after Zelenskyy met in Lublin with Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk.
Tusk is travelling to the impact site this morning, a government spokesperson said.
Separately, I will also keep an eye on the heatwave hitting large parts of western Europe, and ongoing battle against wildfires in France and Spain.
I will bring you all the updates here.
It’s Thursday, 30 July 2026, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.
Good morning.
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Reuters has corrected its earlier reporting at 8:12 BST, revising the number of people killed in Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine from 13 to 8.