Zelenskyy says 500 drones and over 40 missiles utilized in Russia’s ‘vile assault’ on Ukraine
In a put up to Telegram this morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Russia launched about 500 drones and over 40 missiles within the in a single day assault on Ukraine, killing no less than 4 individuals.
He mentioned that the principle targets have been Kyiv, and the Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odesa areas.
Zelenskyy mentioned “civilian infrastructure services”, a rubber manufacturing facility and house buildings have been all broken within the “brutal strikes” seen within the Russian assault.
Rescuers work on the website of an house buildings broken throughout a Russian assault in Kyiv. {Photograph}: Efrem Lukatsky/AP
Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram:
This vile assault got here as a digital fruits of the UN normal meeting week, and that is how Russia is making its actual place identified.
Moscow needs to proceed to struggle and kill and deserves solely the harshest strain on this planet.
The Kremlin advantages from persevering with this warfare and terror so long as there are vitality funds and a shadow navy.
We are going to proceed to strike again to deprive Russia of those alternatives to earn and power diplomacy.
Anybody who needs peace ought to assist President Trump’s efforts and cease all Russian imports. The time for decisive motion is lengthy overdue, and we depend on a powerful response from the US, Europe, the G7, and the G20.
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Kyiv area resident Mark Sergeev and his household have been sleeping when a missile hit their house in the course of the night time.
“I nonetheless can’t consider that the youngsters are alive. It’s such a blessing from God. They have been proper underneath the roof when it hit them. The roof was torn off proper above my eldest son’s mattress,” the 35-year-old instructed Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Anna, 26, one other sufferer of the Russian strikes, mentioned her flat was coated in damaged glass after it was hit.
“I used to be in shock, so I didn’t hear a lot … However I heard a rocket flying for a very long time, after which there was simply an explosion and the home windows shattered,” she mentioned.
Males stand on the website of closely broken residential buildings after a Russian air assault on the outskirts of Kyiv. {Photograph}: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
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Here’s a assertion from Russia’s defence ministry confirming Moscow carried out a large in a single day strike on Ukraine:
Final night time, the armed forces of the Russian Federation launched a large strike with high-precision long-range air, sea-based weapons and unmanned aerial automobiles in opposition to enterprises of the military-industrial advanced of Ukraine used within the pursuits of the armed forces of Ukraine, in addition to the infrastructure of navy airfields.
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In the meantime, Russia’s defence ministry mentioned its air defences shot down 41 Ukrainian drones in a single day into Sunday.
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Zaporizhzhia’s regional head, Ivan Fedorov, mentioned no less than 31 individuals have been injured from the Russian assault within the area this morning.
Earlier, he mentioned three kids (aged 9, 11 and 12) have been hospitalised on account of the assault.
Writing on Telegram, Fedorov mentioned:
Two boys – one with mine-explosive accidents, the opposite with carbon monoxide poisoning – are in critical situation.
Docs assess the situation of the 9-year-old lady as common. She remains to be being examined.
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Listed here are among the newest photos being despatched to us over the newswires from Kyiv, the place some residents have fled to metro stations for security to flee the Russian assault:
Rescuers work on the website of an house buildings broken throughout a Russian assault in Kyiv. {Photograph}: Efrem Lukatsky/APAn emergency employee talks on cellphone at an affect website in a residential neighbourhood after Russian drone and missile assaults in Kyiv. {Photograph}: Thomas Peter/ReutersThis {photograph} exhibits smoke rising above Kyiv throughout the Russian air assault on 28 September 2025. {Photograph}: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
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Zelenskyy says 500 drones and over 40 missiles utilized in Russia’s ‘vile assault’ on Ukraine
In a put up to Telegram this morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Russia launched about 500 drones and over 40 missiles within the in a single day assault on Ukraine, killing no less than 4 individuals.
He mentioned that the principle targets have been Kyiv, and the Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odesa areas.
Zelenskyy mentioned “civilian infrastructure services”, a rubber manufacturing facility and house buildings have been all broken within the “brutal strikes” seen within the Russian assault.
Rescuers work on the website of an house buildings broken throughout a Russian assault in Kyiv. {Photograph}: Efrem Lukatsky/AP
Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram:
This vile assault got here as a digital fruits of the UN normal meeting week, and that is how Russia is making its actual place identified.
Moscow needs to proceed to struggle and kill and deserves solely the harshest strain on this planet.
The Kremlin advantages from persevering with this warfare and terror so long as there are vitality funds and a shadow navy.
We are going to proceed to strike again to deprive Russia of those alternatives to earn and power diplomacy.
Anybody who needs peace ought to assist President Trump’s efforts and cease all Russian imports. The time for decisive motion is lengthy overdue, and we depend on a powerful response from the US, Europe, the G7, and the G20.
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The EU has agreed to maneuver ahead with plans for a drone wall on the coronary heart of its japanese defences as momentum grows for a €140bn mortgage to Ukraine based mostly on Russian frozen property.
After a gathering with ministers from 10 principally central and japanese European member states plus Ukraine, the EU’s defence commissioner, Andrius Kubilius, mentioned a drone wall to guard in opposition to incursions from the skies was a direct precedence and core ingredient of the bloc’s japanese flank defences.
The difficulty has risen up the agenda after a spate of drone incursions in Denmark, Poland and Romania in addition to the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets whereas Russia continues its lethal bombardment of Ukraine.
Kubilius mentioned it was pressing to have an efficient detection system, together with radars and acoustic sensors, in addition to capabilities to intercept and destroy drones.
The commissioner acknowledged the potential mismatch in price concerned in drone defence.
He mentioned:
If you’re utilizing air, and air missiles out of your air fighter to shoot the drone, then you might be utilizing … [a] missile which prices 1m to kill the drone which prices 10,000.
In the meantime, the Kremlin criticised the suggestion of capturing down Russian navy planes over Europe as “reckless” and “irresponsible” after Donald Trump prompt alliance members ought to achieve this.
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Poland scrambles jets in response to Russia’s assault on Kyiv
Poland’s navy mentioned it had scrambled fighter jets in its airspace and put ground-based air defence methods on excessive alert in response to the Russian strikes in Ukraine.
The strikes have been preventive and aimed toward securing Polish airspace and defending residents, particularly in areas adjoining to Ukraine, the navy mentioned.
Poland additionally closed the airspace close to its south-eastern cities of Lublin and Rzeszow till no less than 0400 GMT on Sunday.
Tensions have mounted on Nato’s japanese flank with Russia in latest weeks.
Greater than 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace on the night time of 9-10 September, prompting Nato jets to down a few of them and western officers to say Russia was testing the alliance’s readiness and resolve.
Poland shoots down Russian drones over its airspace – video
Estonia accused Russia of sending three fighter jets into its airspace final week, whereas Romania has come near capturing down a drone.
The violations have prompted each Poland and Estonia to request this month that Nato open consultations underneath article 4 of the alliance’s treaty, which states that members will seek the advice of at any time when the territory, political independence or safety of any is threatened.
The talks don’t robotically result in any motion, in contrast to Article 5 of the treaty, which states that Nato’s collective safety assure, underneath which allies pledge that an assault on one member of the alliance constitutes an assault on all of them.
Russia denied its planes entered Estonian airspace and mentioned none of its drones focused Poland.
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At the least 4 individuals killed after huge Russian assault on Kyiv, officers say
Welcome again to our reside protection of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Kyiv got here underneath heavy bombardment early on Sunday in what impartial screens mentioned was one of many largest Russian assaults on the Ukrainian capital since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
At the least 4 individuals, together with a 12-year-old lady, have been killed within the assaults, in keeping with Ukrainian officers.
Timur Tkachenko, head of the capital’s navy administration, had mentioned early experiences pointed to “three fatalities”, “together with a 12-year-old lady killed by Russians”.
Tkachenko has since revised the toll upwards to 4, as a “physique of the deceased has been discovered”. At the least 10 individuals have been additionally reported injured within the assault on Kyiv.
Drones hit a number of areas in a single day, together with the southeastern Zaporizhzhia area, the place no less than 16 individuals, together with three kids, have been injured, authorities mentioned.
Russia launched one other huge air assault on Ukrainian cities whereas individuals have been sleeping.
Once more, lots of of drones and missiles, destroying residential buildings and inflicting civilian casualties.
We should maximise the price of additional escalation for Russia.
Putin should know… pic.twitter.com/PteTPyV6pn
— Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 (@andrii_sybiha) September 28, 2025
Ukraine’s overseas minister mentioned lots of of drones and missiles had been used within the widespread assaults throughout Ukraine.
“Russia launched one other huge air assault on Ukrainian cities whereas individuals have been sleeping,” Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s overseas minister wrote in a put up on X.
“Once more, lots of of drones and missiles, destroying residential buildings and inflicting civilian casualties,” he mentioned.
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