Ukraine, Russia Report Casualties in Overnight Drone, Missile Attacks

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said two people were killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv, while Russian officials reported 10 people injured, including three children, in a Ukrainian drone attack on Saratov.

In a post on X, Zelenskyy said an attack drone hit the building of the We Are Ukraine television channel, part of the United News telethon, while journalists were live on air. The building was partially destroyed, according to the post.

Five people had been reported injured when he posted, Zelenskyy wrote, and he said the toll could rise. State Emergency Service personnel extinguished the fire, and other services were working at the site.

He wrote that “Shaheds” used against the media marked “a new chapter in Russia’s degradation” and said Europe and the world must respond.

In an earlier post, Zelenskyy described a complex overnight attack involving ballistic, cruise and anti-ship missiles and jet-powered “Shaheds.” Two people were killed and 10 injured in the capital, he wrote, where residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure sustained significant damage.

The same post said State Emergency Service crews rescued 13 people and that everyone needing medical care was receiving it.

Zelenskyy also listed strikes on critical infrastructure in the Kyiv region and on a market in the Odesa region. Two people were injured in Kharkiv, where an apartment building was damaged.

At a railway station in the Sumy region, the locomotive of the Kyiv–Sumy train was attacked in the morning without injuries, and an evacuation was underway, he wrote. Zaporizhzhia and the Dnipro region were also targeted.

Ukrainian forces downed 175 aerial targets overnight, though not all incoming weapons were intercepted, according to the post. Zelenskyy said ballistic missiles remain particularly difficult to stop and that Ukraine has pressed American and European partners for interceptors and for help with its anti-ballistic system, FREYJA, with further meetings planned.

None of the casualty and damage figures from either side could be independently verified. Zelenskyy’s posts did not address the drone attacks on Russian territory, and the Russian accounts did not address the strikes he described.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 384 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones between 8 p.m. Moscow time on Sept. 7 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 8, the state news agency TASS said.

The drones were downed over 14 Russian regions, including Moscow, Rostov, Belgorod and Krasnodar, as well as over Crimea and the Black Sea, according to the ministry.

In Saratov, six of the 10 injured were taken to hospital, and their injuries were not life-threatening, Governor Roman Busargin reported on his Max channel. Several houses were damaged, and crews were working at the site to assess the extent.

Busargin directed the regional Health Ministry to track the treatment of the injured closely and asked the city administration to set up an operational headquarters for residents of the damaged houses. A temporary accommodation center was also opened.

About 100 drones were downed across 10 districts of the Rostov region, Governor Yury Slyusar reported on his Max channel. Falling drone debris ignited a dry grass fire in the Chertkovsky district that was extinguished with no casualties.

Voronezh Governor Alexander Gusev put the number over his region at 18. In Oryol, 13 drones were downed with no damage or casualties, Governor Andrey Klychkov said.

Tambov Governor Yevgeny Pervyshov reported six drones shot down, and three were destroyed over the Kaluga region. Those three came down over the Kirovsky and Yukhnovsky municipal districts and on the outskirts of the city, Governor Vladislav Shapsha reported.

Acting on an order from Saratov Region Prosecutor Roman Panteleev, the regional prosecutor’s office began checking that residents’ rights were being observed, including whether the injured received prompt help. Its press service said coordination with government agencies and law enforcement had been established.