On this photograph supplied by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, fireplace 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 significant nighttime assault that officers there mentioned focused civilian infrastructure.
Moscow despatched over 50 ballistic missiles and round 500 drones into 9 areas throughout Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Sunday morning.
4 individuals, together with a 15-year-old, died in a mixed drone and missile strike on Lviv, in accordance with 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 individuals sustained accidents, in accordance with an announcement by Ukraine’s police pressure.
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 fireplace following the strike, describing it as a civilian facility not linked to Ukraine’s struggle effort.
One individual was additionally injured within the Ivano-Frankivsk area south of Lviv, in accordance with native Gov. Svitlana Onyshchuk.
Within the southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, a nighttime aerial assault killed a civilian lady and wounded 9 different individuals together with a 16-year-old lady, regional Gov. Ivan Fedorov reported. He mentioned Russia attacked with drones and guided aerial bombs.
Fedorov mentioned 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 individuals together with a baby have been injured in Sloviansk, a key metropolis within the jap Donetsk area that continues to be below Ukrainian management, after a Russian guided aerial bomb slammed into an house block, regional prosecutors reported on Sunday. They mentioned 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.”
“At this time, the Russians once more focused our infrastructure, every part that ensures individuals can dwell a standard life. We want extra safety, a speedy implementation of all protection agreements, particularly on air protection, to make this aerial terror pointless,” he mentioned in a Telegram publish.
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 gasoline 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 and weaponize the chilly by denying civilians warmth, mild and working water.
Moscow has additionally stepped up airstrikes on Ukraine’s railway community, which is crucial for army transport, hitting it virtually day by 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.
