Four killed as Russia unleashes major missile and drone attack on Ukraine

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>At least four people were killed when Russia unleashed a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine overnight&comma; with the capital Kyiv suffering the heaviest assault&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was the first major bombardment since an air attack on Kyiv killed at least 21 people last month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Separately&comma; US vice president JD Vance said America was considering selling Ukraine Tomahawk cruise missiles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tymur Tkachenko&comma; head of the Kyiv City Administration&comma; confirmed Sunday’s casualties on Telegram&comma; and said 10 others were injured in the attack that targeted civilian areas across the city&period; A 12-year-old girl was among the dead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;187113" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-187113" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;09&sol;IMG&lowbar;9938&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-187113" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-187113" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said at least 40 people were wounded across the country<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Russians have restarted the child death counter&comma;” he wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thick black smoke could be seen rising from a blast near the city centre&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Russia fired a total of 595 exploding drones and decoys and 48 missiles&comma; Ukraine’s air force said on Sunday&period; Of these&comma; air defences shot down or jammed 566 drones and 45 missiles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Besides Kyiv&comma; Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the bombardment targeted the regions of Zaporizhzhia&comma; Khmelnytskyi&comma; Sumy&comma; Mykolaiv&comma; Chernihiv&comma; and Odesa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Zelensky wrote on X that at least 40 people were wounded across the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Later&comma; Ukraine’s interior ministry stated the number of the wounded rose to 70&comma; with more than 100 civilian objects damaged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Zaporizhzhia’s regional head&comma; Ivan Fedorov&comma; said that three children were among the 27 wounded in the region&comma; adding that more than two dozen buildings were damaged in the capital&comma; which that bears the same name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Zelensky wrote&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This vile attack came virtually &lpar;at&rpar; the close of UN General Assembly week&comma; and this is exactly how Russia declares its true position&period; Moscow wants to keep fighting and killing&comma; and it deserves the toughest pressure from the world&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to Fox News in an interview taped on Friday&comma; Mr Vance said the US administration was reviewing a request by the Ukrainian president for Tomahawk cruise missiles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tomahawks have a range of around 1&comma;000 miles &lpar;1&comma;600km&rpar;&comma; which would put Moscow within the range of Ukraine’s forces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s something that the president is going to make the final determination on&period; I know that we’re reviewing that request&period; We’re also reviewing a number of other requests&comma;” Mr Vance said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;187115" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-187115" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;09&sol;IMG&lowbar;9941&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"427" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-187115" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-187115" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">The drone and missile attacks began overnight and continued after dawn on Sunday<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The strikes that began overnight and continued after dawn on Sunday also targeted residential buildings&comma; civilian infrastructure&comma; a medical facility and a kindergarten&comma; according to Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko&comma; who also said that damage was reported at more than 20 locations across the capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At Kyiv’s central train station&comma; passengers arrived to the crackle of anti-aircraft gunfire and the low buzz of attack drones&period; Mostly women&comma; they waited quietly in a platform underpass until the air raid alert ended&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The sky has turned black again&comma;” said one woman at the station&comma; who gave only her first name&comma; Erika&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s happening a lot&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At a multi-storey residential building heavily damaged by a drone attack&comma; a large section of the upper floors was gutted and windows blown out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Emergency services personnel&comma; including firefighters with an extended ladder&comma; used power saws to clear the debris&period; Piles of glass littered nearby pavements as building residents&comma; some looking shaken&comma; sat on benches&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said the assault had involved &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;hundreds of drones and missiles”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Writing on X&comma; he added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We must maximise the cost of further escalation for Russia&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Russian officials did not immediately comment on the attacks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The assault also triggered military responses in neighbouring Poland&comma; where fighter jets were deployed early on Sunday as Russia struck targets in western Ukraine&comma; according to the Polish armed forces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>International concerns have mounted recently that the fighting could spread beyond Ukraine’s borders as European countries rebuked Russia for what they said were provocations&period; The incidents have included Russian drones landing on Polish soil and Russian fighter aircraft entering Estonian airspace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Russia denied that its planes entered Estonian airspace and said that none of its drones targeted Poland&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Saturday&comma; Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov insisted his nation does not intend to attack Europe but will mount a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;decisive response” to any aggression&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest bombardment followed Mr Zelensky’s announcement on Saturday of what he called a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;mega deal” for weapons purchases from the United States&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It includes both the major arms agreement and a separate &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;drone deal” for Ukrainian-made drones that the US will purchase directly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Russia’s defence ministry said its air defences shot down 41 Ukrainian drones overnight into Sunday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e01cfe86e2a">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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