(ANSA) - MOSCA, AUG 1 - The Lithuanian Embassy is among the buildings damaged during last night's Russian bombardment of Kyiv, which left 9 people dead, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president wrote on social media that 18 buildings, including a school, were hit in the raids across seven districts of the capital. But bombings have also been reported in the regions of Dnipro, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Poltava. "Last night, the Russians launched 35 missiles—27 of them ballistic—and 185 attack drones of various types at Ukraine," Zelensky wrote, noting that only one of the ballistic missiles was intercepted. And this is "simply because there are no missiles for the Patriot systems," the Ukrainian leader emphasized. "And it is precisely this shortage of interceptor systems against ballistic missiles that encourages Russia to carry out such attacks against people's lives." "It is very important," Zelensky states, "that our partners understand that these systems are needed—not in some warehouse for possible future scenarios, but here and now—in order to contain and stop the Russian war in Ukraine. Every batch of ballistic missile defense systems saves lives. And every night that these systems are unavailable results in casualties." (ANSA).