Large Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv kills 4 and wounds at least 10 : NPR
People seen on the site of a building destroyed during a Russian attack in kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday September 28, 2025.
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Kyiv, Ukraine – At least four people were killed when Russia sparked a dam of drones and missiles on Ukraine on Sunday, with the capital of kyiv suffering from the heaviest assault.
This is the first major bombing since a air attack on kyiv killed at least 21 people last month.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city administration of kyiv, confirmed the victims of Sunday via Telegram and said that 10 others had been injured in the attack that targeted civil zones across the city. A 12 -year -old girl was among the dead. Thick black smoke could be seen rising from an explosion near the city center.
“The Russians restarted the counter of the death of children,” wrote Tkachenko on Telegram.
Writing on X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that large -scale attacks involved “nearly 500 strike drones and more than 40 missiles”.
Besides Kyiv, he said that the bombing has targeted the regions of Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolav, Chernihiv and Odesa. According to Zelenskyy, at least 40 people were injured across the country.
Zaporizhzhia regional chief Ivan Fedorov said three children were among the 27 injured in the region, adding that more than two dozen buildings were damaged in the region of the region that bears the same name.
“This vile attack came practically (at) the end of the week of the United Nations General Assembly, and that is exactly Russia declares its real position. Moscow wants to continue to fight and kill, and it deserves the most difficult pressure in the world,” wrote Zelenskyy.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, insisted for the world leaders on Saturday that his nation does not intend to attack Europe but will set up a “decisive response” to any aggression.
The strikes that started overnight and continued after Sunday dawn also targeted residential buildings, civil infrastructure, a medical establishment and a kindergarten, according to the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, who also declared that damages had been reported to more than 20 locations in the capital.
At Kyiv central station, the passengers arrived at the crackling of anti -aircraft shots and the low buzz of attack drones. Especially the women, they were quietly waiting in a lower platform passage until the end of the air raid alert. The parents checked the news on their phones while the children played online games.
People give off the rubble on the site of a damaged apartment during a Russian attack in kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, September 28, 2025.
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“The sky has become black again,” said a woman at the station, who only gave her first name, Erika. “It happens a lot.”
In a residential building on several floors strongly damaged by a drone attack, a large part of the upper floors has been emptied and the windows blown. Emergency services staff, including firefighters with a prolonged scale truck, used electric saws to clean debris. Heaps of glass littered the sidewalks nearby as residents of the building, some who look shaken, sits on benches.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, described the scope of the assault as implying “hundreds of drones and missiles”. “We have to maximize the cost of an additional escalation for Russia,” said Sybiha, writing on X.
Russian officials did not immediately comment on the attacks.
The assault also sparked military responses in neighboring Poland, where fighter planes were deployed early Sunday morning while Russia hit targets in western Ukraine, according to the Polish armed forces.
Polish military officials qualified these defensive measures as “preventive”.
International concerns have recently shown that fighting could spread beyond the borders of Ukraine while European countries repressed Russia for what they said to be provocations. Incidents have included Russian drones landing on Polish soil and Russian fighter planes entering Estonian airspace.
Russia denied its planes that entered the Estonian airspace and said that none of its drones was targeting Poland.
The last bombing follows the announcement of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday, on Saturday called a “mega agreement” for weapons purchases in the United States. The $ 90 billion package includes both the main weapon agreement and a separate “drone” agreement for Ukrainian manufacturing drones that the United States will buy directly.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses had shot 41 Ukrainian drones overnight on Sunday.
