Reuters footage showed a massive Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv unfolding on Thursday (July 2) morning, which officials say killed at least eight people and injured over three dozen others.

The Russian Defence Ministry said in a Telegram post on Thursday it conducted an attack on Ukraine's capital of Kyiv and other locations using long-range, high-precision air-, land-, sea-launched weapons and drones.

The ministry added it hit military and energy facilities around Kyiv, as well as military airports in several regions including in Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk, in what it said was retaliation for Ukraine's attack on civil infrastructure.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

Explosions light up Kyiv skyline as Russian attacks rain down on Ukraine's capital

VIDEO SHOWS: MORE REUTERS TOP VIEWS OF OVERNIGHT ATTACK ON KYIV

RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT

SHOWS: KYIV, UKRAINE (JULY 2, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. RESIDENTIAL BUILDING ON FIRE / EXPLOSION / CAMERA MOVING AWAY FROM WINDOW

2. TWO EXPLOSIONS NEARBY

3. INTERCEPTIONS

4. FIRE BILLOWING

5. INTERCEPTION

6. FIRE, SMOKE

7. LARGE CLOUD OF SMOKE RISING NEAR TV TOWER

8. EXPLOSION, FIRE

9. EXPLOSION

10. FIRE

11. INTERCEPTION

12. SMOKE RISING / AUDIO OF SEVERAL EXPLOSIONS

13. SMOKE OVER HORIZON / AUDIO OF EXPLOSIONS

14. PANORAMA SHOT OF RESIDENTIAL AREA, EXPLOSIONS REFLECTED IN BUILDINGS / AUDIO OF EXPLOSIONS

15. SMOKE RISING, STATUE OF MOTHERLAND

16. VARIOUS OF SMOKE OVER STATUE OF MOTHERLAND

17. VARIOUS OF THICK SMOKE OVER KYIV