Russia hit Kyiv with a ballistic missile strike overnight on July 16, damaging non-residential sites in the Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi districts and sparking fires across both areas.

What happened in Kyiv

The ballistic missile attack struck in the early hours, with falling debris and direct hits causing damage across two of Kyiv’s districts. Fires broke out at non-residential locations in both Sviatoshynskyi and Darnytskyi. No casualty figures have been confirmed at the time of writing.

This follows a similar pattern of strikes earlier in July. Missile and drone attacks on July 5-6 coincided with a NATO summit. The crypto market’s response to those earlier strikes was similarly muted: essentially no…