Media reports and independent monitor describe the latest strikes on Ukraine as ‘one of the heaviest’ since war began.By News AgenciesPublished On 28 Sep 202528 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareAt least four people have been killed, including a 12-year-old girl, and 10 others wounded as Russia launched a major drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital and the surrounding region.An air raid alert was in place over the Kyiv region early on Sunday, with the local military administration saying Russia was attacking with drones and missiles.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe head of Kyiv’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said early findings had identified three deaths, which was swiftly updated after another body was found.Tkachenko wrote on Telegram that there were over 15 locations that had been damaged due to the barrage of attacks, including “drone strikes on multi-storey residential buildings”.“The consequences of the attack are already known in the Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Solomianskyi, Holosiivskyi, and Dniprovskyi districts. Some locations include car fires in courtyards,” he added.Some Kyiv residents fled to metro stations deep underground for safety as the attack continued in the morning.Many regions across the country were also under air raid alert, while neighbouring Poland closed airspace near two of its southeastern cities and its air force and allied forces scrambled jets in response.In a statement posted on X, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia had fired “hundreds of drones and missiles” overnight.He said the strikes destroyed residential buildings and caused “civilian casualties”.“We must maximise the cost of further escalation for Russia,” he said. Advertisement Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the Ukrainian capital was under a “massive” assault and urged people to stay in shelters.“In total, there are five injured,” Klitschko said on the Telegram social media platform, adding that they had been hospitalised. Emergency workers operate at an impact site in a residential neighbourhood after Russian drone and missile attacks in Kyiv on Sunday [Thomas Peter/Reuters]An independent monitor described the attack on Kyiv as one of the biggest Russian strikes on the capital and the surrounding areas since the full-scale war began.The Kyiv Post reported that the total number of aerial targets is still being assessed, but described the latest Russian attack as “one of the heaviest they had ever witnessed”.Anti-aircraft fire rang out through the night as drones flew over Kyiv.In the southeastern Zaporizhia region, the governor said Russian strikes there had wounded at least four people.“Once again, residential buildings and infrastructure are being hit. Once again, it is a war against civilians,” Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said.“There will be a response to these actions. But the West …
