Russia Launches 500+ Drones and Missiles on Ukraine, 14 Sites Struck
Overnight from September 2 to 3, Russian forces carried out a massive strike on Ukraine, deploying 502 drones and 24 missiles from both air and sea.
The Gaze reports this, referring to the Ukrainian Air Force.
Ukrainian air defenses shot down or suppressed 451 targets, including 430 Shahed-type drones and decoys, 14 Kalibr cruise missiles and seven Kh-101 cruise missiles.
Despite the interceptions, at least 69 strike drones and three missiles hit 14 locations across the country, causing fires, power outages and damage to critical infrastructure.
The attacks came from multiple directions, with drones launched from Russia’s Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Orel and Shatalovo regions, as well as from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Cape Chauda in occupied Crimea.
Sixteen Kalibr missiles were fired from the Black Sea, while eight Kh-101 cruise missiles were launched from the Saratov and Krasnodar regions of Russia.
Ukrainian defenses responded with fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare systems, drone forces and mobile fire groups.
The scale of the strike was felt nationwide. In western Ukraine, fifteen drones struck Lviv, damaging warehouses, while further west in Ivano-Frankivsk, explosions and fires erupted after an infrastructure facility in Kalush was hit.
Lutsk in the north-west also reported fires at garages and industrial sites. In Khmelnytskyi, a garage complex caught fire, a trolleybus was damaged, and residential buildings lost windows.
In central Ukraine, the Znamianka community in the Kirovohrad region suffered damage to railway infrastructure, leaving five people injured, including four railway workers, and disrupting train traffic.
In northern Ukraine, a critical facility in Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, was hit, cutting electricity and water supplies to parts of the city.
Around Kyiv, falling debris from intercepted drones caused fires near apartment buildings in Vyshhorod and damaged cars and windows, while another UAV crashed in the Desnianskyi district of the capital.
As The Gaze previously reported, Ukraine called on NATO allies to urgently step up support for its air defense, expand investment in its defense industry, and increase pressure on Russia following the latest wave of large-scale missile and drone attacks.