Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia had launched more than 3,500 drones and nearly 190 missiles against Ukraine so far in September, describing the onslaught as an aerial terror operation. Russian forces carried out a large attack on Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing a 41-year-old man, injuring at least 18 people and triggering several fires, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
Ukrainian forces said they had regained control of the village of Filia in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, and reported bringing down a Russian ballistic missile and 164 drones of different types over the past day. Ukraine's military also claimed a strike on Russia's Kirishi oil refinery in the northwestern Leningrad region, causing explosions and a fire. The governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, said the fire on the refinery's grounds was caused by falling drone debris, after Russian forces shot down three Ukrainian drones.
Khaing Thukha, spokesperson for the Arakan Army (AA) that controls the area, told The Associated Press late on Friday that a jet fighter dropped two bombs on Pyinnyar Pan Khinn and A Myin Thit Private High School in the Thayet Thapin village in Kyauktaw township. He said most of the victims were 17- to 18-year-old students from the private schools. The situation in the village could not be independently confirmed, with access to the internet and cellphone service in the area mostly cut off.
Russian attacks killed four people and injured 10 in Ukraine's Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram on Monday. Two people were killed and one person was injured as Russian forces launched 449 strikes on 17 settlements in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Ukrainian forces launched a massive drone attack on Russian-occupied Donetsk, killing two civilians, Russia's state TASS news agency reported, citing local officials.
Ukrainian forces launched drone and missile attacks on two cities in occupied parts of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region as US and European officials met in Washington to discuss more economic sanctions on Russia to force it to negotiate an end to the war. The attacks killed two people and injured 16, according to Denis Pushilin, the Russia-installed head of the Donetsk region.
It was not clear whether Sudokov's family were hurt in the attack. "This is what my house looks like after tonight. Arrival of the shaheed [sic]. The wife, child and mother were at home at the time," Sudakov said in the accompanying post. A wave of 805 drones and 13 missiles were sent by Russia overnight, according to Ukraine's air force.
Explosions were heard in cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro, late on Saturday, as Russian forces launched another large-scale drone attack on the country, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing officials. A Russian strike in the town of Putyvl in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region killed one person and wounded several others, regional Governor Oleh Hryhorov said. A nine-year-old child was among those injured.
But working in the dead of night with blackout communications, a series of errors led to civilians several North Koreans reportedly diving for shellfish inadvertently coming across the US special forces as they splashed ashore. The SEALs opened fire, killing all those on board a small fishing vessel, the Times report said, without specifying the number of casualties. Officials familiar with the mission told the Times that the US soldiers pulled the bodies into the water to hide them from the North Korean authorities.
Russian drone attacks and shelling killed three people and injured five others in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram. Two people were killed in Russian attacks on the Polohivskyi district, as Russian forces launched 578 attacks on 18 settlements in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Separate Russian attacks also killed one person in Kherson, one person in the Kyiv region and one person in Donetsk, local officials reported, according to the Kyiv Independent news outlet.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump "was not happy about this news, but he was also not surprised," given that the two countries had been at war for a long time. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strike, the second-largest attack since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, was Moscow's answer to diplomatic efforts to end its war.
Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can't match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in a poem, using the voice of a Nazi commandant, "Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done."
