At least 7 dead as Russia, Ukraine exchange strikes and aerial war intensifies

Russian attacks killed four people across Ukraine on Saturday (September 26, 2026), officials said, as the aerial war between Moscow and Kyiv intensifies.

Russia has hammered Ukraine with cruise and ballistic missiles, powerful glide bombs and jet-powered drones, while frontline progress has slowed, some 4 and half years after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbour.

“It is essential that our partners not forget: Russia is escalating every single day. If the Russians have chosen to make their strikes even more brutal, the world must choose stronger responses to keep the war from spreading further,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Saturday morning (September 26, 2026).

He listed “numerous strikes on residential homes” in the cities of Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia and the Odesa, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions.