Russia hit Ukraine with more than 500 drones and missiles in a deadly attack that saw NATO jets in neighboring Poland scrambled to defend its airspace.
Sept. 3 At least one person was killed, five people were injured and tens of thousands were left without power after Russia unleashed a major airborne assault overnight against central and western Ukraine, officials said.
Russian forces launched more than 500 drones and 24 cruise missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said, with the heaviest damage in Khmelnytskyi province, 180 miles southwest of Kyiv, where a civilian in their 40s was killed, and in neighboring Kirovohrad province, where five people were injured in Znamianka.
More than two dozen buildings were also destroyed in the attack on the city.
More than 400 drones and all but three of the missiles were downed or jammed by Ukrainian Air Defenses, but 14 sites were struck and another 14 were hit by debris from missiles and drones destroyed in the air.
Blasts were also reported in Kyiv and the western cities of Lutsk, Kalush and Rivne.
