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of Wednesday, September 3, when Russia
launched 502 drones, 16 Kalibr missiles, and
8 Kh-101 cruise missiles. The main targets
were in western Ukraine. Ukrainian defenses
shot down 430 drones and 21 missiles. The
remaining projectiles killed one person and
wounded 35.
On the night of Thursday, September 4,
another large-scale Russian air raid followed.
Some Russian channels reported significant
technical problems during the operation. Three
Tu-160 bombers were supposed to participate,
but only one managed to launch cruise
missiles. The second was struck by lightning
in flight and had to return to base; the third
failed to take off. Despite that, the raid killed
15 people and injured 26. Two Russian drones
also violated Polish airspace during this attack.
That same day, Russian forces committed
another war crime — an Iskander missile
strike on a group of Danish humanitarian
workers clearing mines left by Russian troops
in the Chernihiv region. The workers wore blue
vests marking them as part of a humanitarian
mission and used white civilian vehicles.
The mission had been officially announced in
advance via proper communication channels.
The attack killed two people and injured eight.
Russia cynically boasted about the strike in
a video, calling it a “successful attack on
enemy logistics.”
On the night of Friday, September 5, Russia
launched 157 drones and seven missiles or
cruise missiles, killing 11 people and injuring
32.
On Sunday, September 7, Russia once again
broke its own record, launching a total of
818 drones and other projectiles at Ukraine.
Ukrainian air defense shot down 747 drones
and four additional missiles. Four people
were killed, including a young mother and
her two-month-old baby in Kyiv. Forty-four
others were wounded. A horse-riding club in
Kyiv was also hit, killing three horses. For the
first time, a Russian air raid struck a Ukrainian
government building. It was initially believed
that a drone hit the Cabinet of Ministers’
headquarters, but it was later confirmed to be
an Iskander-K cruise missile. Its warhead did
not detonate — the damage was caused by its
kinetic impact and a subsequent fire from its
fuel. During the same raid, one Russian drone
again strayed into Poland and crashed 50 km
from the Ukrainian border.
On the night of September 10, Russia
launched 415 drones and 43 missiles or cruise
missiles. The targets were infrastructure
facilities in western and southern Ukraine.
During this raid the incursion into Poland of
about twenty drones occurred as described
earlier in this article.
That same day, Russia committed another
war crime. In the village of Yarova in the
Donetsk region, a Russian aircraft dropped
a guided bomb on a group of civilians waiting
in line to receive pensions. Twenty-five people
were killed, mostly local elderly residents.
Among the dead were two postal workers
responsible for distributing the pensions.
Nineteen others were wounded.
On the night of Saturday, September 20,
another major raid came. Nine Ukrainian
regions were hit — Russia launched
579 drones, eight missiles, and 32 cruise
missiles. Ukrainian defenses shot down
552 drones and 31 missiles or cruise missiles.
One projectile carrying cluster munitions
struck an apartment building in Dnipro, killing
three people and injuring dozens.
The final major raid in the period occurred
on the night of Sunday, September 28, when
Russia launched 595 drones and 48 missiles or
cruise missiles. Ukrainian defenses destroyed
611 out of 643 projectiles. The main target was
The score is rising also for
ground-based air defense
systems. Unfortunately,
this is due to the increasing
intensity of Russian attacks.
During the September 7 air
raid, a government building
in Kyiv was hit for the very
first time.
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