Russia made a “massive” attack in Ukraine on Friday night until Saturday morning, using more than 600 drones and missiles, according to the Ukraine Air Force.
Ukraine air defense systems repelled most projectiles, the Air Force said. However, at least three people died and dozens of others were injured, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Russian attacks attacked the central city of Dnipro de Ukraine and the widest region of Dnipropetrovsk, as well as the regions of Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Zaporizhzia, and also communities in the regions of Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy and Kharkiv, according to Zelenskyy.
“The enemy directed our infrastructure, residential areas and civil businesses,” said the Ukrainian president in an X. “In Dnipro, a missile with cluster ammunition directly hit an apartment building.”
“Each attack is not a military need, but a deliberate strategy of Russia to terrorize civilians and destroy our infrastructure,” he added. “That is why a strong international response is needed.”
Firefighters work on the site of apartment buildings beaten during a Russian missile strike, in the middle of the attack of Russia against Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine, September 20, 2025.
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Meanwhile, a month after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the meeting in person proposed by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, between Putin and Zelenskyy, has not yet been completed.
Russia has constantly intensified its long -range attacks in Ukraine. During one of those strikes last week, around two dozen Russian drones entered Poland, with much, the largest of Russian drones in NATO airspace. At least three of the drones were demolished by responding Poles and Dutch combatants.
NATO has responded by launching the Eastern Sentry operation, which says it will improve its air defense position along the eastern edge of the block. Some allies are pressing for more action. Poles Foreign Minister, Radoslav Sikorski, for example, has suggested that NATO should demolish Russian drones that operate in western Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials are still pressing for extended sanctions and tariffs that Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose Russia in response to Moscow’s refusal to accept a high fire or peace agreement.
“And if the world does not offer a truly tangible response to the prolongation of the Russian war, if the sanctions and rates are postponed, if the Russian army can already launch drones with impunity even against Poland, Putin will continue to see it as permission to fight the war,” Zelenskyy said.
