LONDON — Russia continued its nightly strikes on Ukraine — together with the capital Kyiv — as U.S. President Donald Trump ready to depart for his state go to to the U.Okay. on Tuesday, with the White Home’s efforts to dealer peace between the combatants nonetheless stalled.
Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned Russia launched 113 drones into the nation in a single day into Tuesday morning, of which 89 have been shot down or suppressed. Twenty-two drones impacted throughout six places, with falling particles falling in two places.
Air defenses have been energetic within the sky over Kyiv, native officers there mentioned. Drone assaults brought on fires at a shopping mall and an industrial facility on the outskirts of the capital, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported on Telegram.
“Through the fireplace extinguishing, the aggressor struck the positioning once more, damaging two fire-rescue autos,” the service mentioned.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that Russian assaults have been reported in Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaoprizhzhia Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kherson areas. “Now’s the time to implement a joint protection of our European sky with a multilayer air protection system,” he wrote on Telegram.
Firefighters work on the web site of buildings hit throughout a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Sept. 16, 2025.
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Not less than one particular person was killed by Russian shelling within the frontline Donetsk area in Ukraine’s east, whereas two folks have been killed in southern Zaporizhzhia, based on officers in each areas.
Russia’s Protection Ministry, in the meantime, mentioned its forces downed at the least 87 Ukrainian drones in a single day into Tuesday.
Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion — which started in February 2022 — is anticipated to be a subject of dialogue when Trump meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer throughout his U.Okay. go to.
Britain is a number one member of the so-called “Coalition of the Prepared” — a bunch of mostly-European allied nations which have dedicated to increasing army assist for Ukraine and presumably deploying troops to the nation as a part of a post-war peacekeeping pressure.
Trump has dominated out deploying U.S. troops inside Ukraine, although hinted on the potential involvement of U.S. air belongings in any future peacekeeping mission. Moscow has repeatedly mentioned it is not going to settle for the presence of any overseas troops on Ukrainian soil.
One month after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Trump’s proposed in-person assembly between Putin and Zelenskyy has but to come back to fruition.
In the meantime, Russia has intensified its long-range strikes on Ukraine. Throughout one such strike final week, round two dozen Russian drones entered Poland — by far the largest-ever of Russian drones into NATO airspace. Not less than three of the drones have been shot down by responding Polish and Dutch fighters.
NATO has responded by launching Operation Jap Sentry, which it says will improve its air protection posture all alongside the bloc’s japanese edge. Some allies are pushing for extra motion. Polish Overseas Minister Radoslav Sikorski, for instance, has recommended that NATO ought to shoot down Russian drones working over western Ukraine.
Ukrainian servicemen experience quad bikes in Donetsk area on Sept. 14, 2025.
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Trump raised issues alongside NATO’s japanese frontier when he mentioned Russia’s drone incursions into Poland “may have been a mistake” — a suggestion shortly contested by Warsaw.
“We’d additionally want that the drone assault on Poland was a mistake. Nevertheless it wasn’t. And we all know it,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on social media.
Ukrainian officers, in the meantime, are nonetheless pushing for the expanded sanctions and tariffs that Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose on Russia in response to Moscow’s refusal to just accept a ceasefire or peace deal.
On Monday, Zelenskyy previewed “an energetic week of our diplomacy” in a publish to Telegram.
“Now — one week earlier than the (United Nations) Normal Meeting — President Trump might be in Europe,” Zelenskyy wrote. “We proceed our very energetic work with European leaders to make sure that we’re all coordinated and truly attain choices to place stress on Russia.”
“And if the world doesn’t ship a really tangible response to Russia’s prolonging of the warfare, if sanctions and tariffs are postponed, if the Russian military can already launch drones with impunity even towards Poland — Putin will proceed to see it as permission to wage warfare,” Zelenskyy mentioned.
