At least five civilians have died after Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs at Ukraine overnight in a major attack that officials there said targeted civilian infrastructure.
Moscow sent more than 50 ballistic missiles and around 500 drones into nine regions across Ukraine, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday morning.
NATO member Poland said it scrambled aircraft early on Sunday to ensure its air safety after Russia launched the airstrikes on Ukraine, with Ukrainian officials reporting missiles and drones raining down on the Lviv region near the Polish border.
On Saturday, a Russian drone strike against a railway station hit a passenger train, killing one and wounding 30, as Moscow stepped up strikes on Ukraine's rail and power networks.
Meanwhile, German media reported that drones had been spotted at airports and military installations across Germany over the past two days, suggesting sightings this week at Munich Airport, which forced the closure of both runways, were the tip of the iceberg.
There is mounting concern that Russia could be behind a growing number of recent drone incursions in the airspace of Ukraine's European allies.
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Key Points
- At least 5 dead in large-scale nighttime Russian strike on Ukraine
- Poland scrambles aircraft after Russia launches strikes on Ukraine
- Russia rains drones and missiles on western Ukraine
- At least 30 injured in ‘savage’ Russian strike on passenger train, says Zelensky
- Russian drones and missiles pound Ukraine’s power grid
Mystery drones are causing havoc across Europe. Here’s what we know
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Russia targets critical Ukraine energy sites in overnight attacks
Sunday 5 October 2025 18:01
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Tom Watling
Russia launches devastating attack on Ukrainian energy
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Tom Watling
At least 5 dead in large-scale nighttime Russian strike on Ukraine
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Tom Watling
A breakdown of Russia's latest aerial attack
Sunday 5 October 2025 15:02
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Tom Watling
Below, you can see a breakdown of Russia’s latest, overnight aerial attack.
⚡️On the night of October 5 (starting 20:00, October 4), Russia launched a massive combined strike. Ukrainian air defense tracked 549 aerial targets:
— Special Kherson Cat (@bayraktar_1love) October 5, 2025
•496 attack UAVs (about 250 Shaheds);
•2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles;
•42 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles;
•9 Kalibr… pic.twitter.com/RTH02NZZ9l
‘Shadow fleet’ vessel leaves court days after French troops raid
Sunday 5 October 2025 14:30
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Tom Watling
Hungary clings to Russian oil and gas as EU and NATO push to cut supplies
Sunday 5 October 2025 14:01
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Tom Watling
Lithuania FM: We must stop feeding Putin's imperialist appetite
Sunday 5 October 2025 13:28
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Tom Watling
Lithuania’s foreign minister has urged his European counterparts to stop buying Russian oil and gas following Moscow’s latest aerial attack across Ukraine.
In a statement on X, Kestutis Budrys said: “The Kremlin continues to pursue its terrorist objectives: to freeze, starve, and terrorize theUkrainian nation into surrender. Russia will not seek peace unless it is compelled to do so.
“We must stop feeding its imperial appetite and put an end to state terrorism. How many more Ukrainians must die before Europe decisively cuts off Russian oil and gas imports and helps Ukraine arm itself sufficiently enough to stop this evil once and for all?!”
His message was reshared by his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha.
Thank you @BudrysKestutis for speaking out with such clarity. The question you asked is one the democratic world cannot keep postponing. The only real answer is decisive action: cutting Russia off from all means of its brutal terror and ensuring Ukraine has all the means to put… https://t.co/mrncAtGA45
— Andrii Sybiha (@andrii_sybiha) October 5, 2025
Russia’s new ‘game-changer’ missiles in Ukraine war
Sunday 5 October 2025 13:00
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Tom Watling
In pictures: Rescuers search for survivors after Lviv strike
Sunday 5 October 2025 12:28
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Tom Watling
At least 5 dead in large-scale nighttime Russian strike on Ukraine
Sunday 5 October 2025 12:00
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Tom Watling
Read our piece below detailing in full Russia’s latest, horrific aerial attack on Ukraine.
Patrolling Nato’s skies with the RAF on Europe’s creeping frontline
Sunday 5 October 2025 11:29
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Tom Watling
From the frontline - in pictures
Sunday 5 October 2025 11:00
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Tom Watling
Below, we have some of the latest pictures from the frontline in Ukraine.
Russian air attack damages energy infrastructure in several Ukrainian regions, Kyiv says
Sunday 5 October 2025 10:43
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Tara Cobham
A Russian overnight air attack on Ukraine damaged energy infrastructure in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region and Chernihiv region in northern Ukraine, Kyiv's energy ministry said on Sunday.
In a statement on Telegram, it said "a significant number" of consumers in Zaporizhzhia were left without power and that emergency outages were being implemented in Chernihiv and Sumy, another northern region which had come under attack on Saturday.
Entire family killed in Russian strike, says Kyiv
Sunday 5 October 2025 10:17
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Tom Watling
An entire family of four, including a teenage girl, was killed in the latest overnight Russian strikes, Ukraine’s foreign minister has claimed.
In a post on X, Andriy Sybiha wrote that Russia’s massive aerial attack overnight killed a family near the western city of Lviv.
You can read his full statement below.
Overnight, over 50 Russian missiles and 500 drones struck cities and communities across Ukraine, killing at least 5 people and injuring a dozen more.
— Andrii Sybiha (@andrii_sybiha) October 5, 2025
Near Lviv, an entire family of four was killed in their home, including a teenage girl.
To stop this escalation of terror,… pic.twitter.com/BUS25ZDi9f
Putin says Tomahawk supply to Ukraine would destroy Russia-US relationship
Sunday 5 October 2025 10:00
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Tara Cobham
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that if the United States supplied Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine then it would destroy the Russia-US relationship.
"This will lead to the destruction of our relations, or at least the positive trends that have emerged in these relations," Putin said in a video clip released on Sunday.
At least 5 dead in large-scale nighttime Russian strike on Ukraine
Sunday 5 October 2025 09:44
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Tara Cobham
At least five civilians died after Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs at Ukraine overnight into Sunday, in a major attack that officials there said targeted civilian infrastructure.
Moscow sent over 50 ballistic missiles and around 500 drones into nine regions across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday morning.
Four people died in a combined drone and missile strike on Lviv, according to regional officials and Ukraine's emergency service. The historic western city is often seen as a haven from the fighting and destruction further east. At least four more people sustained injuries, the emergency service said.
The strike left two districts without power and public transport suspended for a few hours early Sunday, mayor Andriy Sadovyi reported. He added that a business complex on the outskirts of Lviv was on fire following the strike.
In the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, a nighttime aerial assault killed a civilian woman and wounded nine other people including a 16-year-old girl, regional Gov. Ivan Fedorov reported. He said Russia attacked with drones and guided aerial bombs.
Fedorov said the strike destroyed residential buildings and left some 73,000 households in Zaporizhzhia and surrounding areas without power.
Ukraine and Poland now UK's largest egg suppliers sparking welfare concerns
Sunday 5 October 2025 09:22
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Tara Cobham
Ukraine and Poland are now the UK’s largest egg suppliers, having overtaken other EU countries.
The development has led to warnings that welfare pledges are not being met as eggs from caged hens are being imported “through the back door”.
The Guardian reported that the two countries have already exported 15m kilograms of eggs to the UK this year, with Ukraine having provided the most at 8m kilograms.
Meanwhile, the Netherlands’ share has fallen from 2022, when it provided a large proportion, while exports from Spain, Italy and other southern and eastern European countries have risen, according to the freedom of information data provided to the newspaper by the Animal and Plant Health Agency for up to July.
What we know about the mystery drones causing havoc across Europe
Sunday 5 October 2025 08:44
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Tara Cobham
Mystery drone incursions into European Union airspace have sparked considerable alarm among both the public and political figures in recent weeks.
These incidents, which extended to NATO airspace, reached an unprecedented scale last month, with some officials attributing them to Russia. Such actions have been interpreted by some European officials as Moscow testing the alliance's defensive capabilities, prompting concerns over NATO's readiness against potential Russian aggression.
On 10 September, a swarm of Russian drones flew into Poland's airspace, forcing NATO aircraft to scramble to intercept them and shoot down some of the devices. It was the first direct encounter between NATO and Moscow since Russia launched its all-out war on Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
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Two killed in Russian air attack on Ukraine's Lviv region, governor says
Sunday 5 October 2025 08:00
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Tara Cobham
A Russian drone and missile strike on Ukraine's western Lviv region overnight killed two people, the region's governor said on Sunday.
Writing on the Telegram messaging app, Maksym Kozytskyi added that two other people had been wounded.
Lithuania-bound flights diverted to Latvia and Poland after 'balloons' incident
Sunday 5 October 2025 07:41
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Tara Cobham
Lithuania's public broadcaster LRT cited the head of the country's National Crisis Management as saying late on Saturday that 13 balloons were heading towards Vilnius airport.
According to notices posted to the US Federal Aviation Administration's website, the flight restrictions were due to "hot air balloon flights".
It was not immediately clear who launched the balloons and what kind they were.
The Vilnius airport said that throughout Sunday, flight delays may occur due to disrupted crew and aircraft rotations. Overnight, most incoming flights redirected to neighbouring Latvia and Poland, while departures were cancelled. One flight due to arrive from Copenhagen returned to Denmark.
NATO-member Lithuania in August declared a 90-km (60-mile) no-fly zone parallel to the border with Belarus in response to drones entering from there, saying this would allow its armed forces to react to violations.
Lithuania, a strong supporter of Ukraine, shares a 679-km (422-mile) border with Belarus, a close ally of Russia. The capital Vilnius lies roughly 30 km from the border.
Lithuania's Vilnius airport reopens after balloons cause suspension, diversions
Sunday 5 October 2025 07:03
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Namita Singh
Lithuania reopened air traffic at Vilnius airport, its largest and busiest air hub, on Sunday after hours of suspensions and diversions triggered by reports of balloons in its airspace affected thousands of travellers, the airport's operator said.
European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and air incursions, including at airports in Copenhagen and Munich.
Air traffic at Vilnius was restored at 4.50am on Sunday after a decision was made late on Saturday to close the airspace "due to a possible series of balloons heading toward Vilnius Airport," the operator said in a statement on its Facebook page.
The temporary restrictions affected both arriving and departing flights, with some flights being cancelled, the operator said. In total, around 30 flights and nearly 6,000 passengers were impacted, it added.
China accused of giving Russia satellite intelligence to aid missile strikes in Ukraine
Sunday 5 October 2025 06:41
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Namita Singh
China is supplying intelligence to Russia to help it carry out missile attacks inside Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official has claimed.
Oleh Alexandrov, an official with Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Agency, told the state-run news outlet Ukrinform that Beijing had been sharing satellite data with Moscow to support its military operations.
“There is evidence of a high level of cooperation between Russia and China in conducting satellite reconnaissance of the territory of Ukraine in order to identify and further explore strategic objects for targeting,” Alexandrov said.
He added that some of the sites targeted “may belong to foreign investors”, suggesting that the intelligence exchange could put infrastructure backed by international funding at risk.
China has maintained what it calls a neutral stance on the war, refusing to condemn Russia’s invasion and deepening economic and political ties with Moscow.
Russian air defence units destroy 32 Ukrainian drones overnight, RIA reports
Sunday 5 October 2025 06:02
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Namita Singh
Russian air defence units destroyed 32 Ukrainian drones overnight, RIA news agency reported on Sunday, citing data from Russia's defence ministry.
At least 1 dead and dozens injured as Russian drones strike a Ukrainian railway station
Sunday 5 October 2025 05:45
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Namita Singh
Russian drones struck a Ukrainian railway station on Saturday, killing one and wounding dozens, as Moscow stepped up strikes on Ukraine's rail and power grids before the fourth winter since its all-out invasion.
At least 30 people were wounded in the "savage" attack, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said following the attack on Shostka, a city in the Sumy region northeast of Kyiv that lies about 70km from the Russian border. Hours later, local prosecutors said that a 71-year-old man was found dead in one of the wrecked carriages.
Russia struck two passenger trains in quick succession, first targeting a local commuter service and then one bound for Kyiv, said Oleksiy Kuleba, Ukraine's deputy prime minister and reconstruction minister. He said that the second drone hit while an evacuation was underway.
The head of Ukraine's national rail operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, Oleksandr Pertsovsky, called the strike "a vile attack aimed at stopping communication with our front-line communities."
"This is one of the most brutal Russian tactics – the so-called 'double tap,' when the second strike hits rescuers and people who are evacuating," said Ukraine's top diplomat, Andrii Sybiha, according to a Telegram post by the foreign ministry.
Both Zelensky and local governor Oleh Hryhorov posted what they said were photos from the scene showing a passenger carriage on fire. The drone strikes also knocked out the power supply in Shostka, home to more than 70,000 people before the war, and surrounding areas, according to Hryhorov.
Russia rains drones and missiles on western Ukraine
Sunday 5 October 2025 05:30
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Namita Singh
At 3am GMT, Ukraine's Air Force said all of the country was under the threat of fresh Russian missile attacks, following hours of air raid alerts and warnings of drone and missile attacks.
Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv – a western Ukrainian city about 70km from the border with Poland, said missiles were approaching the city after air defence systems were already engaged heavily in repelling a Russian drone attack.
Reuters witnesses said the pounding of what sounded like air defence systems in operation came from all directions.
There were no immediate reports of potential damage and there was no comment from Russia.
Both sides have been launching air attacks throughout the war aimed at destroying infrastructure deemed crucial to the overall war efforts, including energy and transport facilities
German minister to equip police with drone defence unit
Sunday 5 October 2025 05:15
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Namita Singh
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, hosting a migration-focussed summit of European interior ministers in Munich on Saturday, told reporters he would equip police with a drone defence unit amid suspicious drone sightings that led to the closure of Munich airport.
"We are in an arms race," he said.
"We want to rise to that challenge." European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and air incursions.
Dobrindt has promised legislation making it easier for the police to ask the military to shoot drones down.
Multiple drone sightings reported in Germany in past three days, Bild says
Sunday 5 October 2025 05:01
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Namita Singh
Drones have been spotted at airports and military installations across Germany over the past two days, Bild newspaper quoted a confidential police report as saying, suggesting sightings this week at Munich Airport were the tip of the iceberg.
Dozens of flights were diverted or cancelled at Munich Airport on Friday after both runways were closed following the second drone sighting in two days. Operations resumed, with delays, on Saturday morning.
There is mounting concern that Russia could be behind a growing number of recent drone incursions in the airspace of Ukraine's European allies. Russia, which is fighting a war in Ukraine, has denied any involvement.
Quoting the confidential police report which it said it had seen, Bild said on its website the drones spotted at Munich Airport were "used militarily", without giving further details or saying where they had come from.
Other sightings in the past three days, it said, included a drone seen on Friday morning flying about 700m from Frankfurt Airport, Germany's largest hub, and a small aircraft reported flying over an ammunition depot in northern Germany on Friday afternoon.
Three drones were also seen the day before, seemingly flying in formation, above a base of the Federal Police's airborne unit near the northern town of Gifhorn, it said.
Lithuania's Vilnius Airport suspends traffic over possible balloons in airspace
Sunday 5 October 2025 04:45
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Namita Singh
Lithuania suspended air traffic at Vilnius Airport due to balloons possibly flying in its airspace, and flights have been diverted to neighbouring countries, the airport's operator said late on Saturday.
European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and air incursions, including at airports in Copenhagen and Munich.
"The decision was made due to a possible series of balloons heading toward Vilnius Airport," the operator said in a statement on its Facebook page.
"As a result of this incident, flights have been affected."
Georgian police clash, detain protesters as ruling party says it won local elections
Sunday 5 October 2025 04:30
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Namita Singh
Georgian riot police used pepper spray and water cannons to drive demonstrators away from the presidential palace and detained five activists on Saturday, as the opposition staged a large demonstration on a day of local elections.
The governing Georgian Dream party said it had clinched victory in every municipality across the South Caucasus country of 3.7 million people in an election boycotted by the two largest opposition blocs.
Shortly before polls closed, a group of
