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Russian Attacks Kill At Least Nine, Wound 57 Across Ukraine
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In Short: Russian strikes, including a mass missile and drone attack on Kyiv, killed at least nine people and injured 57 others across Ukraine.
Russian strikes, including a mass missile and drone attack on Kyiv, killed at least nine people and injured 57 others across Ukraine overnight into Saturday, according to reports from Al Jazeera (Qatar) and the Kyiv Post (Ukraine).
Al Jazeera (Qatar) reported that the attack on Kyiv involved 27 ballistic missiles, with only one intercepted by Ukraine’s US Patriot air defense system, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said had run out of interceptors.
The Kyiv Post (Ukraine) reported that Russian attacks killed four civilians and injured at least 14 others in Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions over the past 24 hours, while overnight drone strikes sparked fires and damaged civilian property and businesses across several regions.
In Darnytskyi, seven people were killed and 14 injured as the attack caused fires and damaged homes, vehicles, and an administrative building, according to Al Jazeera (Qatar).
In Solomianskyi, falling debris damaged a five-storey residential building and sparked a fire, and 35 people were evacuated from the upper floors, with two deaths and eight injuries, including two children, as reported by Al Jazeera (Qatar).
Fires broke out across Kyiv and power outages were reported in some areas, marking the second major attack on Kyiv this week, according to both Al Jazeera (Qatar) and Warpbeat.
Russian forces also took control of two more villages across two Ukrainian regions – Olgivka in the northern Kharkiv and Lyubytske in the southeastern Zaporizhia, as reported by Interfax news agency, cited by Al Jazeera (Qatar).
In response, Ukraine struck three Russian oil refineries’ infrastructure in the Bashkortostan region, nearly 1,600km from the border, and sank a sanctioned Russian container ship, Yanina, as reported by Zelenskyy.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the targets were consistently defined facilities that sustain the war effort, and that the attack “will not go unanswered.”
The Russia-Ukraine war, now in its fifth year, is raging along about 1,200km of front line, according to Al Jazeera (Qatar).
While the exact number of casualties varies slightly between reports, both Al Jazeera (Qatar) and the Kyiv Post (Ukraine) agree that Russian attacks killed at least nine people and injured 57 others across Ukraine.
Background
Russian drone and missile attacks on Kyiv and nearby areas killed four people, damaged energy infrastructure, and shrouded the capital in smoke, according to Ukrainian officials.
Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv overnight, killing at least nine people and injuring 33 others, according to reports from Al Jazeera (Qatar) and Kyivpost (Ukraine).
What's confirmed
- In Darnytskyi, seven people were killed and 14 injured as the attack caused fires and damaged homes, vehicles and an administrative building.
- Fires broke out across Kyiv and power outages were reported in some areas.
- This was the second major attack on Kyiv this week.
What's still developing
- On Friday, US President Donald Trump said that talks were ongoing, but that Washington had not yet agreed to the proposal, and had to be “very careful about letting somebody build them”, despite initially saying earlier this month that he had agreed to give the Ukrainians a licence.
- Rescuers worked on Thursday to douse fires and clear debris in Ukraine's eastern city of Balakliia after Russian strikes on homes killed three overnight, authorities said on the Telegram messaging app.
- Ukraine has said it deployed an unmanned vehicle that traveled across land and water and delivered ammunition and supplies to its troops in a technological breakthrough that could boost its frontline efforts.
- President Donald Trump said that Russia had "lost control" of its diesel industry due to the ongoing fighting with Ukraine and called for an end to the war.
- Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin described Zelenskyy’s open letter proposing the meeting as “boorish,” particularly after a May 22 drone attack on a college dormitory in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region that Moscow said killed 21 and wounded scores of others.
- “On September 28, 2026, a Russian strike hit directly on the building of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv—a place where scientists and Academy employees come to work every day,” NASU said in an official statement.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed that the attack "will not go unanswered" after photos posted by local authorities showed the burnt-out metal shell of the vehicles, with bodies and debris strewn across the road.
- The fire-damaged vessel was pictured after Romanian authorities launched a rescue mission Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned a "horrific" Russian attack on a vessel carrying corn in the Black Sea.