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Eighteen people, including two children, were injured in a Russian missile and drone attack targeting Kyiv during the night of September 16-17, 2026, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The attack damaged buildings, service facilities and railway lines, and temporarily disrupted water supplies in several parts of the city.
Ukraine said a Russian drone targeted a civilian ship flying the Tanzanian flag as it headed to a Ukrainian port in the Black Sea, killing its captain and injuring three crew members, as strikes injured 18 people in Ukrainian cities.
Ukrainian authorities said 18 people, including children, were injured in Russian strikes on Kyiv, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia, damaging residential buildings and an industrial facility. The attacks coincided with Ukrainian drones being launched at targets inside Russia and temporary restrictions being imposed at several Russian airports.
Six people were killed and 20 others injured in separate Russian attacks on Ukrainian regions, according to Ukrainian officials, while Moscow and Kyiv traded claims of downing dozens of drones. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said his country was ready for serious negotiations, while maintaining its conditions and continuing military operations during any talks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said drones tried to target his presidential plane twice in recent weeks while it was in Moldova and passing through Chisinau, saying the incidents were part of a Russian policy aimed at intimidating him and other foreign leaders.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukrainian authorities of using the presence of Western political figures near trains carrying military equipment to conceal their movements. Moscow also warned of what it said were European attempts to bring nuclear weapons closer to Russian territory, amid rising security concerns and continued exchanges of strikes between Russia and Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country was ready to support a mutual halt to strikes on critical infrastructure if Russia demonstrated a genuine, long-term commitment. The position came amid an escalation in long-range attacks and after US President Donald Trump spoke of an understanding between Moscow and Kyiv regarding energy facilities.
David Petraeus, the former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, said passengers on his train were evacuated after drones were heard over Ukraine’s Yahodyn station on Sunday morning, before a drone exploded on a nearby locomotive. Ukrainian Railways suggested that a diplomatic train that had left the station early may have been the intended target.
Reciprocal drone attacks killed and injured people in Russia and Ukraine, while Moscow said it had shot down 399 Ukrainian drones overnight and Kyiv said it had intercepted 85 of 108 Russian drones. The Kremlin confirmed that the Russian military would continue its operations in Ukrainian territory.
Russia’s Federal Security Service said it had found Western small arms and containers holding the banned chemical chloropicrin in parts of Donbas, while the Russian Defence Ministry said it had targeted a fuel station in Kyiv and bombed trains and military supplies in several Ukrainian regions.
Poland and Ukraine condemned Russian strikes targeting a railway area near their shared border, with no injuries reported, while Moscow said it had struck infrastructure used to transport military shipments. Warsaw warned that the war could escalate in the coming weeks, as the Kremlin said trilateral talks could resume in October.
Ukrainian authorities said a Russian drone hit a train and set fire to a locomotive near the border with Poland, minutes after Western officials had passed along the same route. A Polish official confirmed that his country’s airspace had not been violated, while no injuries were reported in the attack.
Poland and Ukraine said a Russian drone struck a train carrying 206 passengers from Kyiv to Warsaw near the border, with no injuries reported. The attack damaged the train locomotive and temporarily halted the Dorohusk-Yahodyn crossing, while the journey was delayed by more than six hours before continuing after border procedures were completed.
The Ukrainian Navy said an unmanned Sargan 3000 boat destroyed a Russian unmanned boat in the Black Sea during an operation conducted in cooperation with military intelligence. Kyiv described the confrontation as the first direct naval battle between two unmanned boats, while the account could not be independently verified.
U.S. envoy Jared Kushner expressed hope that the next steps in efforts to end the war in Ukraine would be announced within two weeks, while Kyiv prepares for the possible resumption of talks with Russia and the United States in October. The diplomatic activity comes amid continued military and political differences between Moscow and Kyiv.
Ukraine and the United States are preparing to hold talks in New York in late September as part of efforts to revive moves to end the war. At the same time, Canada announced support for Kyiv's air defenses and energy sector and for drone production, while Russian attacks on Pavlohrad killed 7 people and injured 76 others.
Ukrainian authorities said a Russian raid damaged the port of Izmail and cut power, while Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for at least 5% of the United States' stockpile of Patriot interceptor missiles.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a shortage of Western air-defense missiles had contributed to the failure to intercept Russian missiles during attacks on Kyiv and its outskirts, calling on allies to accelerate supplies and production.
