LONDON — Russia launched greater than 500 drones and missiles into Ukraine in a single day into Wednesday morning, based on Ukraine’s air drive, with explosions reported throughout the west of the nation and NATO plane scrambling throughout the border in Poland.
Russia launched 502 assault and decoy drones plus 24 missiles within the newest in a single day barrage, Ukraine’s air drive stated in a Telegram submit. Defending forces downed or suppressed 430 drones and 21 missiles, the air drive stated.
Impacts of 69 drones and three missiles had been recorded throughout 14 areas, the air drive stated, with falling particles of downed munitions reported at 14 areas.
The barrage appeared to focus on a number of Ukrainian areas, with native authorities reporting explosions within the western areas of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk. Tymur Tkachenko, the pinnacle of Kyiv’s metropolis administration, stated that no less than one drone crashed within the capital.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi stated 15 Russian drones attacked town, which sits round 40 miles from the Polish border. A warehouse was “partially destroyed,” Sadovyi stated, with no casualties reported.
Ukrainian air protection models hearth at Russian drones throughout a nighttime strike on Sept. 3, 2025.
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In Lutsk, Mayor Ihor Polishchuk stated drones triggered harm to “civilian infrastructure.”
Svitlana Onyshchuk, the pinnacle of the Ivano-Frankivsk navy administration, stated assaults triggered a hearth at an industrial website prompting the deployment of 130 emergency personnel. Onyshchuk reported no casualties from the strike.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a submit to social media that the “huge assault” focused “civilian infrastructure, notably vitality services, a transportation hub, even a storage cooperative, and, as has already develop into routine for the Russians, residential areas.”
“These are clearly demonstrative Russian strikes,” he added. Russian President Vladimir Putin “is displaying his impunity,” Zelenskyy wrote, including, “It is just as a result of lack of ample stress, totally on Russia’s battle economic system, that this aggression continues.”
Throughout the border in Poland, NATO plane took to the air amid the assault.
Folks take shelter inside a metro station throughout an in a single day air raid alert in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 3, 2025.
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The Polish Armed Forces Operational Command stated in a submit to X that plane had been deployed in response to Russian “strikes on services situated on the territory of Ukraine.”
“In our airspace, Polish and allied plane are working intensively, whereas ground-based air protection and radar reconnaissance methods have reached a state of most readiness,” the assertion learn.
NATO forces in Poland returned to a standard degree of readiness after round 4 hours with the conclusion of the Russian strikes, the command stated in a follow-up submit.
Russia is continuous its nightly barrages of Ukraine regardless of U.S.-led peace efforts — and no matter U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated admonitions of Putin over the long-range assaults.
Although August noticed an easing of Russian attacks when put next with a record-breaking July, the 2 weeks after the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska noticed a notable rise within the scale of Russian strikes all throughout Ukraine.
There have been a number of excessive casualty occasions throughout the month, maybe most notably the drone and missile barrage on Kyiv that killed no less than 23 individuals on the night time of Aug. 27-28.
On this handout {photograph} taken and launched by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on Sept. 3, 2025, Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a hearth on the website of an aerial assault in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv area.
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Zelenskyy stated in a press release posted to Telegram on Tuesday stated the continuing assaults present an “open disregard by Russia for every part the world is doing to cease this battle.”
Ukraine is continuous its personal long-range strike marketing campaign deep into Russia.
On Wednesday, the Protection Ministry in Moscow stated its forces shot down no less than 105 Ukrainian drones in a single day.
Zelenskyy stated on Monday that Kyiv intends to develop such assaults, which Ukrainian officers and commanders have framed as a method to undermine Moscow’s battle effort and drive the Kremlin into real negotiations.
“We’re getting ready a technological headquarters involving producers of Ukrainian missiles, key sorts of drones and air protection instruments,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. “We are going to improve the manufacturing of our strike means.”
