Russian missiles and drones launched at Ukraine, biggest attack on Kyiv since spring

More than 20 enemy targets were destroyed over and around the Ukrainian capital as two waves of Russian attacks, one with drones and then with missiles, rushed toward Kyiv. The Ukrainian capital has not experienced such a heavy attack since spring.

Two male security guards, one aged 26 and the other 36,were killed in Kyiv when debris from a shot down Russian cruise missile fell on an enterprise in the city’s Shevchenkivsky District. Other debris fell on the roof of a supermarket of the French company Auchan in Darnytsky District on the left bank of Kyiv, starting a fire.

The attacks took place between 3 a.m. and 5.30 a.m.

Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said on Ukrainian national television on Aug. 30 that although the attack was large, it was not of the scale of the ones that Russia had launched at Ukraine during last autumn and winter.

"It wouldn't qualify as a massive missile attack,” Ihnat said. “The (term) 'massive' implies a broader scale, while this constitutes yet another assault by the (enemy). A total of twenty-eight missiles were launched from the Caspian and Engels areas (of Russia), fired from Tu-95MS strategic bombers.”

All 28 cruise missiles fired at targets in Ukraine were successfully intercepted and destroyed by air defenses in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Odesa, and Mykolaiv oblasts, Ihnat said. The enemy also launched Shahed kamikaze drones from the Kusrk area of western Russia, as well as from locations to the south of Ukraine. Fifteen out of the 16 Shahed drones detected by air defenses were destroyed.

In Kyiv Oblast, private residences were damaged, and three individuals were injured during the overnight attack.