At least three people were killed in attacks targeting Kyiv and the Kyiv region overnight on September 30. The Kyiv City Military Administration said attacks involving ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles struck four districts of the capital, killing two people and injuring four as of 8 a.m.
Three people rescued from rubble in Vyshhorod
Three people were rescued from the rubble of a destroyed private house in the city of Vyshhorod in the Kyiv region. The rescued included a child experiencing an acute stress reaction, while a man sustained a shrapnel wound to the head and a woman was injured in the leg.
Search and rescue teams found the body of a child under the rubble. Debris removal operations continued.
Kharkiv and Dnipro regions also targeted
Attacks were carried out against the city of Kharkiv and 10 settlements over the past 24 hours. An 8-year-old girl in Kharkiv and an 85-year-old woman in the village of Ogurtsovka in the Shevchenkove settlement experienced acute stress reactions.
It was announced that three districts of the Dnipro region were targeted in attacks involving unmanned aerial vehicles. No injuries were reported in the attacks in the region.
Ukraine says 160 aerial targets were neutralized
The Ukrainian Air Force announced that 160 aerial targets had been destroyed or neutralized overnight on September 30. According to the agency, the neutralized targets included five ballistic missiles and 155 Shahed, Gerbera and other types of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Ukrainian authorities said that, from 6 p.m. on September 29, 188 attack drones, along with Zircon and Oniks cruise missiles and Iskander-M and S-400 ballistic missiles, had been directed at the country. They said 86 of the drones were powered by jet engines.
The Ukrainian Air Force said the main direction of the attacks was the Kyiv region and that the aerial attack vehicles struck targets at 18 locations.
Russia claims strikes on energy facilities
Russia’s Defense Ministry, for its part, claimed that it struck the De Novo data processing center in Kyiv the same night with high-precision weapons and attack drones. The ministry said a Kyiv electrical substation, the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant in Vyshhorod, the Trypilska Thermal Power Plant and a battery energy storage park in Horenychi were also targeted, alleging that the facilities supplied electricity to military-industrial enterprises in the Kyiv region.
The ministry also said it hit an industrial complex at the Port of Izmail in the Odesa region, which it alleged was used to store military cargo and fuel for the Ukrainian army, as well as a dry cargo ship in the northwestern Black Sea that it claimed was carrying military supplies to the Port of Odesa. It added that 384 Ukrainian drones were downed over several Russian regions and the Black Sea between 8 p.m. on September 29 and 8 a.m. on September 30, Moscow time.
