5 killed as Russia launches massive overnight missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, Poland scrambles jets

At least five civilians died after Russia launched a major overnight attack on Ukraine, using drones, missiles, and guided bombs that targeted civilian infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow fired over 50 ballistic missiles and around 500 drones across nine regions of Ukraine.

Massive strikes in Lviv, Zaporizhzhia kill 5

According to officials, four people, including a 15-year-old, were killed in combined drone and missile strikes on Lviv, a western city often seen as a refuge from fighting further east, according to regional officials and Ukraine’s emergency service. At least six more were injured, Ukraine’s police said.

The strikes left two districts without power, and public transport was suspended early Sunday, Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi reported. He added that a business complex on the outskirts caught fire, stressing it was a civilian facility with no military connection.

One person was also killed in Zaporizhzhia, where the Russian attacks left more than 73,000 households without electricity, said regional governor Ivan Fedorov. Nine others, including a 16-year-old girl, were injured in the city, which saw residential buildings damaged and cars destroyed.

Six people, including a child, were injured in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, after a Russian guided bomb hit an apartment block. Over two dozen buildings, shops, and cars were damaged in the attack, prosecutors reported.

Other regions targeted included Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Kirovohrad, Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy said on the attack that, “We need more protection and faster implementation of all defence agreements, especially on air defence, to deprive this aerial terror of any meaning. A unilateral ceasefire in the skies is possible — and it is precisely that which could open the way to real diplomacy.”

Poland scrambled jets, Nato allied aircraft deployed

Poland scrambled fighter jets to protect its airspace, and Nato allied aircraft were deployed.

“Polish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace, while ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest state of readiness,” Poland’s operational command said on X.

Air raid alerts covered all of Ukraine from 02:10 GMT, following warnings from the Ukrainian Air Force of incoming Russian missile and drone attacks.

Overnight attacks damaged infrastructure, power outages reported

Kyiv’s energy ministry said overnight attacks damaged infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, and Sumy. Lviv’s mayor reported significant power outages and urged residents to stay indoors as air defence systems engaged incoming attacks.

The assaults come days after a US official said Washington would support Ukraine in launching deep strikes inside Russian territory.