Overnight into September 23, Russia attacked Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv region with 161 drones and guided bombs, killing one person and injuring at least 13 others.
Overnight on September 22–23, Russia attacked Ukraine with 161 drones, including 82 Shahed-type strike UAVs, alongside guided aerial bombs. Three regions were hit at once — Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv region. According to preliminary reports, one person was killed in Kharkiv's Kyivskyi district, and at least 13 more people were injured across the three regions. Volunteers Support Ukraine follows these mass attacks daily, which have remained an everyday reality for millions of Ukrainians for years.
In the capital's Holosiivskyi district, a drone damaged a warehouse and struck an Ukrnafta gas station. In Darnytskyi district, a drone hit a transport infrastructure facility and a gas station on Kharkivske Highway, setting its roof on fire. In Solomianskyi district, drone debris fell between residential buildings and a fire broke out at a transport company's premises. Three people were injured in the capital, two of them seriously. Air defense forces had shot down or neutralized 119 of the 161 drones as of 8 a.m. Volunteers Support Ukraine notes that even an intercepted drone often falls as debris on residential neighborhoods, causing harm.
In Kharkiv region, Russian forces dropped four guided aerial bombs on residential areas of Izium. Eight people were injured, including a child. A two-story building was damaged, along with private homes, outbuildings and vehicles, and four fires broke out. Volunteers Support Ukraine notes that border and front-line towns in Kharkiv region, like Izium, suffer strikes like this almost every week.
In Zaporizhzhia, a Russian strike caused a major fire covering about 6,000 square meters at the Amstor shopping mall — the same facility that was hit on September 17. Two men, aged 37 and 39, were injured. Volunteers Support Ukraine sees this repeat strike on an already-damaged civilian building as further proof that Ukrainian cities' infrastructure lives under constant threat, not only during the biggest, headline-grabbing attacks.
One night, three regions, dozens of sites hit — this is what the routine of full-scale war looks like for Ukrainian cities, even on nights that never make world headlines. Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps helping people affected by the war in whatever way its resources allow, and believes it's important that nights like this one are known beyond Ukraine's borders too.
