Russian overnight barrage kills at least eleven across Ukraine
Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight, killing at least eleven people and injuring ninety-six others, with the Odesa region suffering the heaviest damage. Ukrainian officials reported that a residential building was damaged in Odesa, and strikes also hit Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia. In response, Kyiv carried out strikes against Russia's so-called shadow fleet of tankers used to circumvent Western oil sanctions.
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Ukrainian officials reported that at least eleven people were killed and ninety-six others injured across the country in a mass overnight Russian missile and drone attack, according to Euronews and the Kyiv Independent. The Odesa region bore the brunt of the assault, with a multi-storey residential building damaged and dozens of residents, including an infant, among the injured, regional governor Oleh Kiper said. Strikes were also reported in Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown, and in Zaporizhzhia.
The Russian defence ministry said its forces had targeted Ukrainian industrial infrastructure, including the Zaporizhstal steel plant in Zaporizhzhia and an Interpipe Steel complex in Dnipro, describing the sites as legitimate military-industrial targets. Ukrainian authorities did not immediately confirm the nature of all sites struck, and Reuters said it could not independently verify claims from either side.
The attack came as Kyiv pursued its own campaign against what it describes as Russia's shadow fleet, the network of tankers used by Moscow to circumvent Western sanctions on oil exports. Separately, neighbouring Moldova closed its airspace for a period after the overnight barrage, underscoring the regional disruption caused by the intensified exchange of strikes as the war entered its fourth autumn.
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