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Russian Strikes Kill Nine, Wound 56 in Ukraine

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In Short: Russian air strikes and drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed nine people and injured 56 others across Ukraine, according to local authorities.

Russian air strikes and drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed nine people and injured 56 others across Ukraine, according to local authorities. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a residential building in Shevchenkivskyi district was partially destroyed, trapping people inside.

The attacks, which included more than a dozen explosions in Kyiv, caused fires to break out and power outages in some areas. Mayor Klitschko also reported that debris had been found at a Western embassy in the city centre.

Tymur Tkachenko, Kyiv regional governor, said that a Russian missile and a drone strike killed a child and injured three more people in the area, damaging infrastructure facilities, houses, warehouses, and cars. Tkachenko added that a residential building in Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, was destroyed, killing a child.

In Sumy, Russian glide bombs struck homes and a school, killing two people and injuring six. A 74-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman were among the fatalities in Sumy.

Emergency services flooded the area, and armed officers cordoned off surrounding streets shortly after the attack. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko put the injury count at nine, marking the tenth consecutive day of Russian drone attacks on Kyiv.

Russia acknowledged the massive overnight assault, saying it had hit a data centre in the capital supporting Ukraine's armed forces, various power plants in the Kyiv region, an industrial complex in Odesa region, and port infrastructure in Izmail.

The Russian Embassy in Ireland cited what it called 'information' that NATO is preparing an air and naval blockade of Kaliningrad Oblast. NATO spokesperson Allison Hart told the Kyiv Independent that Russia told NATO it would be ready to use nuclear weapons if alliance members attempt to isolate Kaliningrad Oblast.

Ukraine's neighbours, European Union and NATO members Romania and Poland, scrambled military jets to protect their airspaces amid Russian attacks on Ukraine, according to defence ministry and armed forces statements on X.

Ukrainian forces also struck three ground control stations for Russian drones, alongside other targets, the General Staff said. Eighty-one companies are now authorized to form private air defense units, up from 51 in mid-July, as the country, and particularly Kyiv and the surrounding area, come under near-constant Russian attack.

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Background

What's confirmed

• The attack early on Wednesday killed two and injured four in the capital, Kyiv City Military Administration said on Telegram, and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said fires broke out, ‌affecting private ‌houses along with ⁠a store and a warehouse.
• Tymur Tkachenko, Kyiv regional governor, writing on Telegram, said that a Russian missile and a drone strike killed a child and injured three ⁠more people in ‌the ​area, also damaging infrastructure facilities, houses, warehouses and cars.
• Ukraine's neighbours, ​European Union ‌and NATO members Romania and Poland, both scrambled ​military jets to protect their airspaces amid Russian attacks on Ukraine, according to defence ministry and armed ​forces ​statements on X.
• A Ukrainian ​drone attack on the Russian ‌Samara region, an oil producing and refining hub some 1100km southeast from Moscow, has damaged private houses, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said on social ​media platform VK.
• Russian air strikes have killed three, including a ‌child, and injured another seven people in the Ukrainian capital ‌of Kyiv and the surrounding region.

What's still developing

• "Russian terrorists and simply unhinged scumbags. To strike at children, at schools, at ordinary homes like this. America, Europe, all our partners must not forget that Russia will not stop this madness without real pressure," he said.
• Zelenskiy also said that talks ​were proceeding to ensure that Ukraine has a supply of missiles for the Patriot air defence system, which ​play ​a critical role in ​intercepting Russian ballistic missiles.
• Zelenskiy said tests ‌were continuing to improve the efficiency of Ukrainian interceptors against Russian jet-powered drones, which fly higher and faster than conventional drones.
• Reuters could not immediately independently verify the reports.
• One local resident, a 33-year-old man who gave only his first name, Oleh, told Reuters he believed conditions in both Kyiv and Moscow would worsen before they improved.
• The first successful interceptions under the program were announced in March, when a company's unit downed Russian drones in Kharkiv Oblast.
• Air raid alerts were issued for residents of the Lublin and Podkarpackie regions this morning, as Polish fighter jets scrambled preventively amid Russian drone attacks on Ukraine As Russia shifts its bombardment tactics to near-hourly drone attacks throughout the day, increasingly targeting civilian infrastructure, more businesses are joining the program.
• "The Black Sea blockade is part of his plan," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, as Russian strikes against ports and vessels in Ukrainian waters are choking off Ukraine's agricultural exports.
• Before voting began, Putin addressed the country on television and said the election would show public support for Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
• President Vladimir Putin has described the election as a test of public support for Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
• Power company DTEK did not detail the damage to energy infrastructure in Kyiv but said workers had restored supply to 8,000 households.
• "With the treatment of Ukrainian children, of POWs and detained civilians within the Russian Federation, there is actually a rather limited amount of coincidence involved. It is a systemic challenge," Norwegian State Secretary Eivind Vad Petersson said.

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