On this picture supplied 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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At the least 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, based on regional officers and Ukraine’s emergency service. The historic western metropolis is commonly seen as a haven from the preventing and destruction additional east. At the least six extra folks sustained accidents, based on a press release by Ukraine’s police drive.
The strike left two districts with out energy and public transport suspended for just a few 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 battle effort.
One particular person was additionally injured within the Ivano-Frankivsk area south of Lviv, based on native Gov. Svitlana Onyshchuk.
Within the southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, a nighttime aerial assault killed a civilian lady and wounded 9 different folks together with a 16-year-old lady, 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 lady 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 baby had been injured in Sloviansk, a key metropolis within the japanese Donetsk area that is still beneath Ukrainian management, after a Russian guided aerial bomb slammed into an residence block, regional prosecutors reported on Sunday. They stated Russian airstrikes on Saturday night broken over two dozen residential buildings in Sloviansk, in addition to automobiles, 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.”
“Today, the Russians again targeted our infrastructure, everything that ensures people can live a normal life. We need more protection, a rapid implementation of all defense agreements, especially on air defense, to make this aerial terror pointless,” he stated in a Telegram put up.
Ukraine has for months carried out its personal long-range strikes on Russia, a lot 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 for the reason that full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. Kyiv calls it an try to weaponize the chilly by denying civilians warmth, mild and operating water.
Moscow has additionally stepped up airstrikes on Ukraine’s railway community, which is important for navy transport, hitting it virtually each day over the previous two months. Russian drones on Saturday struck a railway station within the northern metropolis of Shostka, killing one and wounding dozens.
