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Russian Attacks Kill Nine, Wound 57 Across Ukraine
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In Short: Russian strikes, including 27 ballistic missiles and drone attacks, killed nine people and injured 57 others across Ukraine, targeting Kyiv and other regions.
Russian strikes, including 27 ballistic missiles and drone attacks, killed nine people and injured 57 others across Ukraine, targeting Kyiv and other regions, according to reports from Al Jazeera (Qatar) and Kyiv Post (Ukraine).
In Darnytskyi, seven people were killed and 14 injured as the attack caused fires and damaged homes, vehicles, and an administrative building. In Solomianskyi, falling debris damaged a five-storey residential building and sparked a fire, with 35 people evacuated from the upper floors, two dying and eight injured, including two children.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Ukraine has run out of interceptor missiles for its US Patriot air defense systems, with only one of the 27 missiles intercepted. Zelenskyy stated, “Our targets are consistently defined facilities that sustain the war effort.”
The attack on Kyiv was the second major attack on the city this week, causing fires and power outages in some areas. Zelenskyy vowed that the attack “will not go unanswered.”
Russian forces also took control of two more villages across two Ukrainian regions—Olgivka in the northern Kharkiv and Lyubytske in the southeastern Zaporizhia—according to the Interfax news agency, citing the Russian Defence Ministry.
In response, Ukraine struck three Russian oil refineries’ infrastructure in the Bashkortostan region, nearly 1,600km from the border. Zelenskyy also reported that Ukrainian troops sank a sanctioned Russian container ship, Yanina, and hit other targets in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
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, local officials and emergency services reported.
President Donald Trump said that talks were ongoing about providing Ukraine with interceptor missiles but that Washington had not yet agreed to the proposal, emphasizing the need to be “very careful about letting somebody build them.”
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
- With the Russia-Ukraine war in its fifth year, fighting is raging along about 1,200km (750 miles) of front line.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.