Ukraine's Air Force said Russia fired 161 attack drones at the country overnight, of which 119 were shot down, along with three "Banderol"/"Dan-T" drone-missiles.
In Kyiv, the attacks hit several districts. A fuel station was damaged and a warehouse caught fire in the Holosiivskyi district; a transport infrastructure facility and another fuel station were hit in the Darnytskyi district; and in the Solomianskyi district drone debris fell between residential buildings and a transport company caught fire. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said three people were injured, two of them hospitalised in serious condition. One of the injured later died in hospital.
Commuter train services in the city were suspended because of the drone attacks. In the Kyiv region, according to the head of the regional military administration, Timur Tkachenko, three people were injured and 18 facilities damaged — eight private houses, warehouse and administrative premises, infrastructure facilities, an enterprise and two cars. Most of the damage was in the Bucha district.
In Zaporizhzhia, a drone struck the Amstor shopping centre on the evening of 22 September; the centre had already been targeted by drones on 17 September. According to the State Emergency Service, a fire broke out over an area of 6,000 square metres and two men, aged 37 and 39, were injured. The head of the regional administration, Ivan Fedorov, published a photo of the shopping centre's roof after the strike. Rescuers had to work at the risk of repeated attacks, the agency said.
In the village of Kushuhum in the Zaporizhzhia region, drones destroyed a private house and its owner was killed. In Izium in the Kharkiv region, eight people were injured, including an 11-year-old child, when guided aerial bombs were dropped. Apartment buildings were damaged and a fire broke out. In Kharkiv, Russian drones attacked cars several times in the Kyivskyi district, killing one person.
The city of Sumy was shelled with long-range weapons overnight. Four hits were recorded: two on a private residential area and two on civilian infrastructure. At least one person was injured.
In Odesa, the strike hit civilian and port infrastructure. According to governor Oleh Kiper, a cargo ship flying the flag of Antigua and Barbuda was damaged and its captain, a Ukrainian citizen, was killed. Fires broke out at warehouses storing medicines and food.
Russia's Defence Ministry said the overnight attacks struck Ukrainian defence and energy infrastructure, logistics centres, a warehouse storing materials for drone production in Kyiv, the Tukans enterprise, warehouses in the Odesa region and a dry cargo ship in the Black Sea. The Russian ministry claims it strikes only military targets.
This was the sixth strike in recent weeks on a Ukrnafta fuel station complex, said Serhiy Fedorenko, acting chairman of the board of Naftogaz. According to him, staff were in a shelter and no one was hurt. Ukrnafta added that it had earlier begun installing protective gabions around its fuel stations in Kyiv. According to Ukraine's Energy Minister, Denys Shmyhal, Russia has destroyed or damaged more than 300 Ukrainian fuel stations over six months.
Poland and Romania scrambled fighter jets because of combat operations near their borders. In south-eastern Poland, the airports of Lublin and Rzeszów temporarily suspended operations; the restrictions were lifted after the fighters were airborne, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) reported.
Sources differ on the casualty figures in Kyiv. The head of the Kyiv city administration reported one person injured according to preliminary information, while Vitali Klitschko reported three injured and one dead. In Izium, the State Emergency Service and the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration speak of eight injured, including a child, whereas The Insider and Radio Liberty give a figure of seven people, including an 11-year-old child.