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Russian Missile Attack Kills Nine in Kyiv
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In Short: 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).
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).
Al Jazeera reported that the attack caused power outages and fires across Kyiv, while Kyivpost noted that the facility hit was previously damaged in a June missile strike.
The Ukrainian government said the attack was aimed at reducing Russia's ability to manufacture precision-guided weapons used against Ukrainian targets. Kyivpost reported that the facility hit was part of Russia’s defense-industrial base and produced components for missile guidance systems, onboard computers, and air defense equipment.
According to Al Jazeera, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Ukraine has run out of interceptor missiles for its US Patriot air defense systems. Zelenskyy also stated that Ukraine had struck three Russian oil refineries in the Bashkortostan region and sunk a sanctioned Russian container ship.
Kyivpost reported that the attack caused significant damage to an education facility and injured at least 20 people in Ukraine's capital. The Ukrainian air force said it destroyed or suppressed 131 Russian aerial targets during the overnight attack in the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Odesa 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.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said it struck two key Russian military airbases in occupied Crimea with drones, damaging or destroying at least seven combat aircraft in its second attack on the Saky airbase this week.
The attack on Kyiv is the second major attack on the city this week, according to Al Jazeera.
U.S. President Donald Trump called on Ukraine to replace Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Saturday, after criticizing Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure and announcing a diesel supply deal with Russia, according to the Koreatimes (Korea, Republic of).
The Ukrainian government and President Zelenskyy have emphasized that their targets are facilities that sustain the war effort, and that they are intensifying attacks on Russian territory, mainly targeting oil depots.
The attack also underscores the challenges Ukraine faces in defending against Russian strikes, with President Zelenskyy warning that Ukraine has run out of interceptor missiles for its US Patriot air defense systems.
Background
Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv killed at least two people and injured over 40, according to reports.
Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv killed at least two people and injured over 20, according to reports from the BBC (United Kingdom) and Ukrinform (Ukraine).
What's confirmed
- Russian strikes launched against Ukraine overnight into Saturday included 27 ballistic missiles and only one of them was intercepted, “simply because there are no interceptors for the Patriot system”, Zelenskyy said.
- Credit: AP/Dan Bashakov KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles and drones injured at least 19 people overnight in Ukraine's capital and the surrounding region, authorities said.
What's still developing
- The latest Houthi attacks came after several days of strikes on Riyadh’s main airport, which reportedly killed at least 18 people and injured more than 300.
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that American intelligence sharing with Ukraine has not paused, CBS News reported.
- With the Russia-Ukraine war in its fifth year, fighting is raging along about 1,200km (750 miles) of front line.
- 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.
- But Russian advances have slowed by more than half this year, and Ukraine has been launching strikes inside Russia, hitting its oil facilities, logistics sites and weapons production.
- In brief: US envoy Steve Witkoff called Putin a “humanist” while seeking the Russian leader’s support for renewed Ukraine peace talks.
- “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.
- Ukraine’s largest steel company, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, said on Sept. 25 that it cannot restart steel production amid a surge in Russian strikes on factories, as the embattled sector calls for more domestic and international support to prevent its total collapse.
- Deepest strike of the war: Ukrainian SOF hit critical russian plants more than 3,000 km away Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces carried out the deepest strike inside russia since the beginning of the full-scale war🧵 pic.twitter.com/SCMEvbVlNl Ukraine’s military said the strikes hit two Russian gas-processing facilities, including one in Novy Urengoy and another in the Purovsky district. ‼️‼️ Nuevo récord: los UAV han llegado a Novy Urengoy, a unos 2500 km de la frontera con Ucrania.
- Chernihiv Governor Vyacheslav Chaus announced Thursday that the death toll from Wednesday's Russian missile attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky had climbed to 22, including five children who perished in the strikes on residential areas.