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President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the mass movement of Russian drones into Poland was a deliberate Kremlin operation, not an accident. He stressed the urgent need for joint European air defense and confirmed Ukraine’s readiness to assist Poland with technology and intelligence.

A couple was injured in Zaporizhzhia as a result of a Russian drone attack.

Three people, including a 16-year-old teenager, were wounded in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, as a result of a Russian attack.

Poland said on Wednesday it had scrambled aircraft alongside allies to shoot down “hostile objects” violating its airspace during a Russian attack on neighbouring Ukraine, a first for a NATO country during the war. “Aircraft have used weapons against hostile objects,” Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on social media, adding: “We are in constant contact with NATO command.” The incursion came as Russia unleashed a barrage of strikes across Ukraine, including in the western city of Lviv, around 50 miles (80 kilometres) from the Polish border. Russian drones and missiles have entered the airspace of NATO members — including Poland — several times during Russia’s three-and-a-half-year war, but a NATO country has never attempted to shoot them down. A cornerstone of the Western military alliance is the principle that an attack on any member is deemed an attack on all. The operational command of Poland’s military slammed the “unprecedented” airspace violations, saying it had spotted around a dozen dron...

In Berdychiv, Zhytomyr region, more than 40 farms have filed claims for property damage following the Russian attack.

In Vinnytsia, rescuers extinguished a fire at an industrial infrastructure facility that broke out as a result of a Russian attack.

Poland’s armed forces were on a heightened state of alert overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday because of nearby Russian strikes against Ukraine.

Russian troops struck the Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region during the day, causing damage to civilian facilities.

Law enforcement officers have identified 20 citizens who died as a result of a Russian airstrike on the village of Yarova in the Donetsk region. The identification of four more victims is ongoing.

Russian troops struck Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region with artillery, drones, and aerial bombs; five people were wounded in the attacks, and some of the victims may be trapped under rubble.

In the village of Yarova in the Donetsk region, which was struck by a Russian army KAB missile, the death toll climbed to 23.

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) have disrupted Russian plans to break through to a key position held by Ukraine’s Defense Forces in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna sector.

Russian forces targeted Ukrainian emergency responders in Kramatorsk with a drone strike, damaging a fire truck. The attack occurred while firefighters were extinguishing a blaze in a residential building.

On the night of September 8, Russian forces shelled the settlement of Bilozerka in the Kherson region, damaging a residential building.

Three people were injured in the Sumy region during the day as a result of Russian aggression, two of them were rescuers.

Counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine has detained a Russian agent who was manufacturing explosive devices for terrorist attacks in Odesa.

The home arena of the capital's hockey club Sokil was damaged as a result of shelling of Kyiv by the Russian army.

Russian forces shelled the town of Kupiansk in Kharkiv region with mortars on September 7, wounding a six-year-old girl.

In Kremenchuk, Poltava region, car traffic has been restored on the Dnipro River bridge, which was damaged during a Russian attack. Train service across the bridge remains temporarily suspended.

In Zaporizhzhia, there are currently 80 buildings known to have been damaged as a result of the Russian attack.