Twelve killed, including Indian national, in Russian missile and drone blitz - Zelenskyy

On September 1, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that a Russian missile and drone strike in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast resulted in 12 deaths, including a citizen from India. The assault utilized a large number of unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic missiles. President Zelenskyy noted that the Russians purposefully targeted civilian infrastructure and civilian transportation routes.

In addition to Kyiv, the strikes affected Kherson, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Russia's strategy, according to Zelenskyy, involves striking areas to inflict maximum casualties when air defense systems are weak. Earlier that day, Russian forces launched a ballistic missile attack on a railway depot in Kyiv, killing seven people, all of whom worked in the rail sector.

Among the fatalities was an eighth victim in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district. Ukraine's Air Force reported that Russia fired a combination of ballistic and cruise missiles and almost 200 drones. The Air Defense forces managed to intercept or neutralize 10 of the ballistic and cruise missiles, two Banderol-type munitions, and 187 drones.

The strikes inflicted damage on 28 different sites, with falling debris reported at ten locations. The Ukrainian Regional Military Administration reported four fatalities and 13 injuries in Boryspil, with one civilian hurt and damage to private residences, commercial shops, parked vehicles, an industrial facility, and a garage in Obukhiv.