Russia’s overnight missile and drone barrage kills civilians and slams Ukraine’s cities and power grid
A large Russian strike using ballistic and cruise missiles and 196 drones hit Ukrainian cities and infrastructure overnight, injuring residents in Kyiv, killing civilians at a border crossing with Moldova, and damaging energy and logistics sites around Mykolaiv.
Russia’s latest large‑scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine again combined strikes on civilians with hits on key nodes of the power grid and logistics network.
Overnight and into the morning of 9 September, Russia attacked with Iskander‑M ballistic missiles, S8000 Banderol missiles and 196 Shahed, Gerbera and decoy drones, including jet‑powered Shaheds, according to Ukrainian reporting. Ukraine said its defenses shot down or suppressed 165 of the UAVs, but missile and drone impacts were recorded at 23 locations.
In Kyiv, a Russian drone struck a 24‑story residential building in the Darnytskyi district during the morning attack. Five people were injured, three of them hospitalized. Fires broke out in parts of the building on the 11th and 12th floors, and emergency services were dispatched to the scene.
Overnight, Russia also attacked the Starokozache international road border crossing with Moldova in Odesa region using strike drones. Civilians near the checkpoint were killed and injured. President Volodymyr Zelensky said two people were killed and three injured, and that rescuers evacuated 16 people. The crossing has been temporarily closed.
Mykolaiv city and its surroundings came under what local reporting described as a large‑scale, combined missile and drone attack. At least two Iskander‑M ballistic missiles, 12 KAB glide‑bombs, 11 S8000 Banderol cruise missiles and several Geran‑4 jet‑drones were used against Mykolaiv port, logistics centres, a 330 kV electrical substation in the town of Trykhatky and the nearby town of Halytsynove. The METRO wholesale store in Mykolaiv was also hit.
Zelensky said Moscow should not enter winter with the understanding that missile and drone terror will go unpunished, and complained of what he called insufficient reaction from the international community to strikes that almost every day take people’s lives.
For Ukrainians, the pattern is grimly familiar: residential towers, wholesale warehouses and border crossings again sit in the path of missiles and drones, while grid operators race to keep power infrastructure functioning under repeated attack.
What happens next will depend on whether Ukraine’s partners move to bolster its air defenses ahead of winter, whether Russia maintains this tempo of long‑range strikes, and how quickly damaged sites in Kyiv, Odesa region and Mykolaiv can be repaired.
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- OSINT