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Russia Strikes Kyiv and Kharkiv, Injuring Dozens
Confirmed
In Short: Russian forces launched a series of attacks on Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv and Kharkiv, on September 28, injuring dozens of people and causing significant damage.
Russian forces launched a series of attacks on Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv and Kharkiv, on September 28, injuring dozens of people and causing significant damage.
In Kharkiv, a nine-story building in the Saltivskyi district was hit around 04:00, leading to a fire and partial structural damage. Rescuers managed to lead 47 people out of the burning building, regional council head Mykola Lukashuk reported.
The attack in Kharkiv damaged 18 apartment buildings and blew out more than 1,500 windows, according to regional prosecutors. A fire broke out in a 12-story building, causing extensive damage.
The strikes also hit the Stolychniy market in Sofiivska Borshchahivka, killing people and injuring nearly 10 others, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Across Ukraine, Russia launched a massive overnight missile and drone assault, killing 25 people, including four children, and causing extensive damage to residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Pryluky and other cities.
Ukraine's Air Force claimed air defenses shot down 128 out of 149 drones launched by Russia overnight, demonstrating the effectiveness of Ukrainian defenses.
The attacks followed a large-scale attack that began overnight on October 7, which killed nearly 30 people across Ukraine, including four victims in Kyiv.
Ukraine's Third Army Corps said it had recaptured another 20 square miles from the Russians, bringing the total to 68 square miles since the offensive began several months ago.
Kremlin-appointed official Yevgeny Balitsky said on Telegram that a Ukrainian drone hit a minibus near a village close to the front line, killing three people, including the driver, and wounding three passengers.
Ukrainian officials reported that 185 drones were “destroyed or neutralised” over the wider region, and that seven people had been injured, with 47 houses, four apartments, and three cars damaged.
European Union President Ursula von der Leyen announced a €6 billion ($7bn; £5bn) drone support package for Ukraine, emphasizing continued pressure on Russia's war economy with ever tougher sanctions.
What's confirmed
- In all, some 180 sites across the country were damaged, including more than 50 residential buildings, he said.
- KYIV, Ukraine — Russia on Thursday unleashed a third straight day of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, demolishing an apartment building in Kyiv where nine people were killed and dozens injured, authorities said.
What's still developing
- Fifteen missiles and 23 drones scored direct hits across 24 locations, it said.
- “I believe that achieving a truce could be one of the key outcomes of this meeting. It could be a truce covering both the energy sector and the Black Sea — specifically in that combination,” he said.
- “Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit,” he said on X.
- Assassinated Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead outside her Moscow home in 2006, had "predicted" Russia's trajectory under Vladimir Putin, her editor told AFP as Russians marked the 20th anniversary of her death.
- Asked about that in 2021, Putin said his agencies "did everything to uncover these crimes".
- " Nearby are residential buildings, a park, a library, offices, shops. The center of Dnipro. In the middle of the working day, hundreds of people are here," Hanzha wrote.
- " We didn't hear any explosion. Glass came pouring down, and a column of smoke stood there," Yuliia Baldzhy told Suspilne Kharkiv.