One person killed and eight others injured in overnight Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities

Published connected 21/09/2025 - 15:43 GMT+2 •Updated 20:01

One personification was killed and 8 others injured aft Russia launched a caller onslaught targeting Ukrainian cities overnight connected Sunday.

Kyiv says Moscow fired 54 Iranian-designed Shahed drones and waves of decoy drones overnight into Sunday, targeting astatine slightest 8 locations. Ukraine’s Air Forces opportunity nan country’s aerial defences had successfully intercepted 33 drones, confirming that nan remaining 21 did onslaught their targets.

Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin says 1 civilian was killed successful Pokrovsk successful nan overnight attacks, arsenic Russia continues to target nan eastbound Ukrainian region successful an effort to deepen its foothold successful nan Donbas region.

Officials successful Chernihiv besides announced that 1 man was injured successful Russian shelling of nan metropolis successful nan early hours of Sunday. The onslaught targeted immoderate of nan city’s captious infrastructure, sparking a fire.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service says nan Kremlin besides carried retired a 2nd onslaught connected nan bluish region, hitting firefighters arsenic they worked to incorporate nan blaze and injuring astatine slightest two.

In Zaporizhzhia, 3 group were injured aft a ample Russian aerial run targeted nan metropolis connected Saturday. Governor Ivan Fedorov noted that nan metropolis had been subjected to 523 strikes crossed 13 settlements, adding that attacks continued into Sunday.

Russian attacks person drastically intensified precocious contempt increasing world unit connected nan Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin to de-escalate and prosecute successful bid talks.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X connected Sunday that Moscow had fired complete 1,500 drones, 1,280 guided aerial bombs and 50 missiles of various types against Ukrainian cities complete nan past week alone.

The Ukrainian leader besides noted that a batch of these Russian projectiles featured components produced by European countries and different allies.

“Thousands of overseas components person been recovered successful this weaponry – much than 132,000 items – from galore countries: Europe, nan United States, China, Japan, and dozens of others,” wrote Zelenskyy.

Zelenskyy noted that this overseas support has helped Russia create weapons connected a ample standard for “the liking of panic against our people”. He besides warned that if Russia is not stopped, this threat will “surely” grow to European and Indo-Pacific countries.

“Strong sanctions are an instrumentality that will thief extremity this. We must trim disconnected each imaginable proviso routes and intends of evading sanctions, and exert unit connected nan countries and individual companies that assistance them.”

He besides called for further unit connected Russia to unit it to nan negotiating array and extremity its full-scale invasion, good into its 4th year.

“We count connected nan 19th EU sanctions package to beryllium genuinely painful, and connected nan United States to subordinate nan Europeans,” he added.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has besides shared that it has been achieving important occurrence militarily connected nan ground. The country’s subject intelligence, HUR, announced connected Sunday that it had destroyed 3 Russian Mi-8 helicopters successful nan occupied Crimean peninsula.

Russia wide uses nan Mi-8 for transport, combat support and reconnaissance missions.

They besides shared that a radar position successful Crimea, a mobile early informing strategy utilized by Russia for early discovery of stealth craft and cruise missiles astatine agelong ranges, was destroyed successful a abstracted attack.