LONDON — Russia launched greater than 500 drones and missiles into Ukraine in a single day into Wednesday morning, in response to Ukraine’s air power, with explosions reported throughout the west of the nation and NATO plane scrambling throughout the border in Poland.
Russia launched 502 assault and decoy drones plus 24 missiles within the newest in a single day barrage, Ukraine’s air power stated in a Telegram put up. Defending forces downed or suppressed 430 drones and 21 missiles, the air power stated.
Impacts of 69 drones and three missiles have been recorded throughout 14 areas, the air power stated, with falling particles of downed munitions reported at 14 areas.
The barrage appeared to focus on a number of Ukrainian areas, with native authorities reporting explosions within the western areas of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi and Lutsk. Tymur Tkachenko, the top of Kyiv’s metropolis administration, stated that not less than one drone crashed within the capital.
One individual was killed in Khmelnytskyi, Serhiy Tyurin — the top of the regional administration, wrote on Telegram. Two missiles and three drones have been shot down over the area, Tyurin stated.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi stated 15 Russian drones attacked the town, which sits round 40 miles from the Polish border. A warehouse was “partially destroyed,” Sadovyi stated, with no casualties reported.
Ukrainian air protection models fireplace at Russian drones throughout a nighttime strike on Sept. 3, 2025.
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In Lutsk, Mayor Ihor Polishchuk stated drones brought on harm to “civilian infrastructure.”
Svitlana Onyshchuk, the top of the Ivano-Frankivsk navy administration, stated assaults brought on a fireplace at an industrial website prompting the deployment of 130 emergency personnel. Onyshchuk reported no casualties from the strike.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a put up to social media that the “large assault” focused “civilian infrastructure, significantly power amenities, a transportation hub, even a storage cooperative, and, as has already change into routine for the Russians, residential areas.”
“These are clearly demonstrative Russian strikes,” he added. Russian President Vladimir Putin “is exhibiting his impunity,” Zelenskyy wrote, including, “It’s only because of the lack of adequate strain, totally on Russia’s struggle economic system, that this aggression continues.”
Throughout the border in Poland, NATO plane took to the air amid the assault.
Folks take shelter inside a metro station throughout an in a single day air raid alert in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 3, 2025.
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The Polish Armed Forces Operational Command stated in a put up to X that plane have been deployed in response to Russian “strikes on amenities situated on the territory of Ukraine.”
“In our airspace, Polish and allied plane are working intensively, whereas ground-based air protection and radar reconnaissance methods have reached a state of most readiness,” the assertion learn.
NATO forces in Poland returned to a standard stage of readiness after round 4 hours with the conclusion of the Russian strikes, the command stated in a follow-up put up.
Russia is continuous its nightly barrages of Ukraine regardless of U.S.-led peace efforts — and no matter U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated admonitions of Putin over the long-range assaults.
Although August noticed an easing of Russian attacks when put next with a record-breaking July, the 2 weeks after the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska noticed a notable rise within the scale of Russian strikes all throughout Ukraine.
There have been a number of excessive casualty occasions through the month, maybe most notably the drone and missile barrage on Kyiv that killed not less than 23 folks on the night time of Aug. 27-28.
On this handout {photograph} taken and launched by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on Sept. 3, 2025, Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a fireplace on the website of an aerial assault in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv area.
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Zelenskyy stated in a press release posted to Telegram on Tuesday stated the continuing assaults present an “open disregard by Russia for every little thing the world is doing to cease this struggle.”
Ukraine is continuous its personal long-range strike marketing campaign deep into Russia.
On Wednesday, the Protection Ministry in Moscow stated its forces shot down not less than 105 Ukrainian drones in a single day.
Zelenskyy stated on Monday that Kyiv intends to broaden such assaults, which Ukrainian officers and commanders have framed as a method to undermine Moscow’s struggle effort and power the Kremlin into real negotiations.
“We’re making ready a technological headquarters involving producers of Ukrainian missiles, key kinds of drones and air protection instruments,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. “We’ll improve the manufacturing of our strike means.”
