Russia launches heavy bombers at Ukraine, targets Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia with drones and missiles

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Russia focused Kyiv and different Ukrainian cities in a mass missile and drone assault in a single day on Sept. 28, launching heavy bombers that triggered air raid sirens even in areas removed from the entrance line.

5 Russian Tu-95 bombers took off from Olenya airfield in Murmansk Oblast at roughly 1:45 a.m. native time, monitoring channels reported. At round 2:25 a.m., the Kyiv Metropolis Navy Administration warned that Russia had launched MiG-31K bombers, prompting an aerial alert throughout the nation.

Ukraine's Air Drive then issued a warning at 3:52 a.m., saying Russia had seemingly launched Tu-95s from the Engels air base.

All through the evening, swarms of Shahed-style drones additionally threatened numerous Ukrainian areas. Explosions have been reported in Kyiv , Kyiv Oblast, Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, and Sumy.

Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia have reported the heaviest injury from the assault to this point.

A five-story constructing within the capital was partially destroyed and residential infrastructure has been broken in a number of districts, Kyiv Metropolis Navy Administration Head Tymur Tkachenko said . The assault additionally broken non-residential buildings and parked vehicles.

A minimum of six folks have been injured, 5 of whom have been hospitalized, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported .

"Missiles are nonetheless hitting the town," he mentioned, urging residents to remain in shelters.

In Kyiv Oblast, fires broke out in a number of properties and buildings in districts exterior the capital through the "mass enemy strike," regional authorities said . 5 folks within the city of Fastiv have been injured — all workers of a bakery that caught fireplace through the assault.

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(Zaporizhzhia Regional Navy Administration / Telegram) <img alt="Article image" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="855" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" style="color:transparent;object-fit:cover" sizes="50vw" srcset="/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2Fzapo5.jpg&w=256&q=100 256w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2Fzapo5.jpg&w=360&q=100 360w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2Fzapo5.jpg&w=414&q=100 414w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2Fzapo5.jpg&w=640&q=100 640w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2Fzapo5.jpg&w=768&q=100 768w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2Fzapo5.jpg&w=1024&q=100 1024w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2Fzapo5.jpg&w=1280&q=100 1280w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2Fzapo5.jpg&w=1536&q=100 1536w" src="https://kyivindependent.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2Fzapo5.jpg&w=1536&q=100"/> Flats in flames in Zaporizhzhia amid Russia's mass strike on Sept. 28, 2025. (Zaporizhzhia Regional Navy Administration / Telegram) In Zaporizhzhia — the regional capital of partially Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southeastern Ukraine — the assault focused the town's civilian infrastructure, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov reported. One missile struck a multistory constructing immediately.

9 homes and 14 high-rise buildings have been broken in whole, Fedorov said . The assault additionally broken non-residential buildings, together with a college and the manufacturing services of an unspecified enterprise.

A minimum of two assaults hit Zaporizhzhia through the evening, in line with the governor. A minimum of 16 folks have been injured, together with three kids.

"Insidious ways, an inhuman thirst for human struggling," Regina Kharchenko, appearing head of the Zaporizhzhia Metropolis Council, said the morning after the assault.

"Yesterday's life nonetheless smolders within the home windows — somebody's images, kids's toys, books. Folks have suffered, and the town is counting its wounds once more."

Explosions have been additionally reported in Ukraine's Khmelnytskyi Oblast. Governor Serhii Tiurin confirmed that air defenses had been lively over the area through the assault, however mentioned preliminary stories indicated no casualties.

Poland scrambled fighter jets in response to the mass assault, because it has achieved beforehand when Russian strikes threatened western Ukraine. Throughout a mass assault on Sept. 10, Poland shot down multiple Russian drones that crossed the border and breached Polish airspace.

Flight screens reported that Poland on Sept. 28 closed the airspace over Lublin and Rseszow because of "unplanned army exercise associated to making sure state safety."

Unidentified drones reportedly spotted in Denmark, Lithuania, Finland

The incidents come as Russian drones and military aircraft have increasingly entered NATO airspace, prompting heightened alert and readiness across the alliance.

<img alt="Article image" loading="lazy" width="800" height="450" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" style="color:transparent;object-fit:cover" sizes="50vw" srcset="/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2FGettyImages-1547432001.jpg&w=256&q=100 256w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2FGettyImages-1547432001.jpg&w=360&q=100 360w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2FGettyImages-1547432001.jpg&w=414&q=100 414w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2FGettyImages-1547432001.jpg&w=640&q=100 640w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2FGettyImages-1547432001.jpg&w=768&q=100 768w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2FGettyImages-1547432001.jpg&w=1024&q=100 1024w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2FGettyImages-1547432001.jpg&w=1280&q=100 1280w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2FGettyImages-1547432001.jpg&w=1536&q=100 1536w" src="https://kyivindependent.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.kyivindependent.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2025%2F09%2FGettyImages-1547432001.jpg&w=1536&q=100"/> Russia has intensified the size of its aerial assaults on Ukraine all through the spring and summer time of 2025. Heading into the colder months, officers have warned Ukrainians to brace for a brand new wave of Russian mass assaults focusing on the nation's energy infrastructure .

Earlier in September, Russia launched over 810 Shahed-type drones and 13 missiles in a record-breaking attack that struck the Cupboard of Ministers constructing in central Kyiv. Two nights later, Russia attacked once more, putting Ukraine and violating Polish airspace.

The incident marked the primary time a NATO member has destroyed Russian drones through the full-scale warfare in opposition to Ukraine. It was adopted by a string of Russian airspace violations and suspicious drone incursions in NATO territory.

Amid these escalating provocations, world leaders convened in New York for the high-level U.N. Common Meeting, the place President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump.

In an abrupt tonal shift , Trump declared after the assembly that Ukraine "is able to combat and win all of Ukraine again in its unique type" — with European help.

Trump later lobbed criticism at Russian President Vladimir Putin for the continuing assaults on Ukraine.

"I am very dissatisfied with what Russia is doing and what President Putin is doing," Trump advised reporters on Sept. 25. "I have not appreciated it in any respect. He is killing folks for no purpose in anyway."

Trump has nonetheless not imposed any new U.S. sanctions in opposition to Russia regardless of the mounting civilian dying toll.

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