On this picture offered by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, hearth and smoke raises after a residential constructing was broken throughout Russia’s air strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025.
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No less than 5 civilians died after Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs at Ukraine in a single day into Sunday, in a serious nighttime assault that officers there stated focused civilian infrastructure.
Moscow despatched over 50 ballistic missiles and round 500 drones into 9 areas throughout Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Sunday morning.
4 folks, together with a 15-year-old, died in a mixed drone and missile strike on Lviv, in line with regional officers and Ukraine’s emergency service. The historic western metropolis is usually seen as a haven from the combating and destruction additional east. No less than six extra folks sustained accidents, in line with a press release by Ukraine’s police drive.
The strike left two districts with out energy and public transport suspended for a couple of hours early Sunday, mayor Andriy Sadovyi reported. He added {that a} enterprise advanced on the outskirts of Lviv was on hearth following the strike, describing it as a civilian facility not linked to Ukraine’s warfare effort.
One particular person was additionally injured within the Ivano-Frankivsk area south of Lviv, in line with native Gov. Svitlana Onyshchuk.
Within the southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, a nighttime aerial assault killed a civilian girl and wounded 9 different folks together with a 16-year-old woman, regional Gov. Ivan Fedorov reported. He stated Russia attacked with drones and guided aerial bombs.
Fedorov stated the strike destroyed residential buildings and left some 73,000 households in Zaporizhzhia and surrounding areas with out energy.
An aged girl reacts subsequent to the home destroyed by a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025.
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Individually, six folks together with a toddler have been injured in Sloviansk, a key metropolis within the jap Donetsk area that continues to be beneath Ukrainian management, after a Russian guided aerial bomb slammed into an house block, regional prosecutors reported on Sunday. They stated Russian airstrikes on Saturday night broken over two dozen residential buildings in Sloviansk, in addition to vehicles, outlets and a restaurant.
Zelenskyy on Sunday reiterated his name on Kyiv’s Western companions to ship extra air defenses to fight Russia’s “aerial terror.”
“In the present day, the Russians once more focused our infrastructure, every part that ensures folks can stay a traditional life. We’d like extra safety, a speedy implementation of all protection agreements, particularly on air protection, to make this aerial terror pointless,” he stated in a Telegram put up.
Ukraine has for months performed its personal long-range strikes on Russia, lots of which have focused Moscow’s oil infrastructure and contributed to persistent gas shortages.
For its half, the Kremlin has ramped up assaults on Ukraine’s energy grid forward of winter, as in earlier years because the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. Kyiv calls it an try to weaponize the chilly by denying civilians warmth, gentle and working water.
Moscow has additionally stepped up airstrikes on Ukraine’s railway community, which is crucial for navy transport, hitting it nearly daily over the previous two months. Russian drones on Saturday struck a railway station within the northern metropolis of Shostka, killing one and wounding dozens.
