Russian strikes hit nine regions – UN: September especially deadly for civilians
After the end of a brief energy truce, Russia is again hitting Ukraine's power grid and factories. Kyiv sends hundreds of drones into Russia, and Moscow's airports report delays.
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Russian attacks hit nine regions of Ukraine on Friday, Ukrainian officials said. Hundreds of thousands of households lost power due to emergency outages, at least 15 people were wounded and numerous homes were damaged, AP reported. In Odesa a factory producing household goods caught fire, and in Zaporizhzhia a business site burned over about 500 square metres. The day before, Kyiv had abandoned a brief truce on energy facilities, saying Moscow had not respected it.
The U.N. human rights monitoring mission in Kyiv counted at least 328 civilians killed and 2,105 wounded in September – 85 per cent more than in September 2025. Danielle Bell of the U.N. mission said the first two weeks of October were among the deadliest periods for civilians in years. Russia's Defence Ministry, for its part, said it had intercepted 644 Ukrainian drones overnight. More than 200 flights were delayed at four Moscow airports, and 46 were delayed or cancelled in St Petersburg.