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Russia launched a large -scale missile attack and drones aimed at regions in Ukraine on early Saturday, killing at least three people and hurting more dozen, Ukrainian officials said.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the attacks took place in nine regions, including Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Polotava, Kyva, Kyiva, Kyiva
“The objective of the enemy was our infrastructure, residential areas and civil companies,” he said, added that a missile equipped with cluster ammunition hit a multi -story building in the city of Dnipro.
“Each strike is not a military need, but a deliberate strategy of Russia to intimidate civilians and destroy our infrastructure,” he said in a statement about his official telegram.
In other places, the Ukrainian drones during the night crashed into an energy installation in Samara, southwest of Russia, according to the local governor and the general personnel of Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that its forces intercepted 149 Ukrainian drones during the night.
Zelenskyy said he hoped to meet with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, regardless of the United Nations General Assembly next week. He also said that the first ladies of Ukraine and the United States would probably have separate conversations focused on humanitarian problems involving children.
At least 30 people were injured in the attack in the central region of Dnipropetrovsk of Ukraine, said local governor Serhii Lysak. Several buildings and high -rise houses were damaged in the eastern city of Dnipro.
In the kyiv region, local authorities said there were strikes in the areas of Bucha, Boryspil and Obukhiv. A house and the cars were damaged. In the western region of Lviv, Governor Maxim Kozytsky said that two cruise missiles were shot down.
Russia launched 619 drones and missiles, said the Ukraine Air Force in a statement. In total, 579 drones, eight ballistic missiles and 32 cruise missiles were detected. The Ukrainian forces demolished and neutralized 552 drones, two ballistic missiles and 29 cruise missiles.
“During the air strike, tactical aviation, in particular the F-16 combatants, effectively worked on the enemy’s cruise missiles. Western weapons once again demonstrate their effectiveness on the battlefield,” said the Air Force in a statement.
‘We expect sanctions’
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Zelenskyy said that Ukraine and his partners have laid the basis for long -term security guarantees and that he hopes to evaluate how close they are to finish such commitments during next week’s meetings in New York.
He said that European nations are prepared to advance with a frame if the United States remains closely committed. He pointed out that discussions have taken place at multiple levels, even between military leadership and general personnel in Europe and the United States.
“I would like to receive signs for me about how close we are to understand that the security guarantees of all partners will be the type we need,” said Zelenskyy.
He said that sanctions against Russia must remain on the table if peace efforts stop, and plan to press the problem in conversations with Trump.
“If the war continues and there is no movement towards peace, we expect sanctions,” he said, adding that Trump is looking for strong steps from Europe.
Ukraine points to the oil sector of Russia
Ukraine said on Saturday that his drones hit the Novokuibyshevsk refinery, an important fuel producer for aircraft operated by Russian Russian oil. He said the strike resulted in explosions and a fire.
The regional governor of Samara, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, said that the unacted fuel and energy facilities were attacked. He later informed that four people had died in the attack, but he did not immediately say who they were or described any damage.
Ukraine general personnel also said that a second Russian oil refinery was beaten during the night, in the city of Saratov. The city is in a region of the same name, to the southwest of Samara.
The Russian and Ukrainian telegram channels published videos of what they said it was a strike near the Saratov refinery. They show explosions and a burning brightness against the night sky, with air sirens that cry in the background.
Local governor Roman Busargin did not comment immediately about the statements that the refinery was beaten. He said that a woman was hospitalized after nighttime attacks in Saratov, and residential buildings were damaged.
The Ukrainian drones also reached the Russian pumping stations of the Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk pipeline, an intelligence official told Associated Press on Saturday. They talked about anonymity to reveal confidential information.
The pipe leads to the export terminal in the port of Novalossiysk.
The explosions were registered several stations in several regions of Volgograd and Samara, according to the intelligence official.
Ukraine “continues his successful work in the introduction of sanctions of drones against Russian refineries and oil pumping stations. It is this infrastructure that carries the surplus surplus to the Russian budget, which feeds the war against Ukraine. The work in blocking these money flows will continue,” they told AP.
Russia denies having raped Estonia’s airspace
The Russian Ministry of Defense denied that its plane violated Estonia’s airspace, after Tallin reported that three combat planes crossed in their territory on Friday without permission and remained there for 12 minutes.
The incident, described by the main diplomat of Estonia as an unprecedented raid “, occurred just over a week after NATO airplanes knocked down Russian drones over Poland, increasing fears that the Moscow war against Ukraine could spill.
In an online statement published early Saturday, Moscow emphasized that their combat aircraft had remained in neutral marine waters of the Baltic Sea to more than 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) of the Vaindloo Island of Estonia in the Gulf of Finland.
“On September 19, three MIG-31 combat planes completed a scheduled flight from Karelia to an airfield in the Kalinningrad region,” he said, referring to the intercalated Russian enclave between Polish and Lithuanian territory. Estonia, Poland and Lithuania belong to NATO.
“The flight was made in strict compliance with the international regulations of airspace and did not violate the borders of other states, as confirmed through target monitoring,” said the statement without providing details about the monitoring operation.
On Friday, Estonios officials said that Tallin had summoned a Russian diplomat to protest, and also moved “to begin consultations among the allies” under article 4 of NATO, which states that the parties would confer every time territorial integrity, political independence or security are threatened.
On Saturday, Poland’s operational command said that Poles and Allied airplanes were deployed again during the night in response to Russian long -range air attacks in neighboring Ukraine. In a subsequent publication on X, the operational command described the deployment as “preventive” and “aimed at ensuring airspace in areas adjacent to the threatened area.”
Last week, his NATO member, Romania, said he deployed two F-16 planes to intercept a drone that briefly entered his airspace.
