In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, policemen carry an injured person from a residential house damaged by a Russian strike on Dnipro, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Ukrainian and Russian attacks kill 3 civilians as Zelenskyy prepares to meet Trump
Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s Belgorod border region killed two civilians while Russian shelling of eastern Ukraine left a man dead, officials said Sunday.
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, policemen carry an injured person from a residential house damaged by a Russian strike on Dnipro, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s Belgorod border region killed two civilians while Russian shelling of eastern Ukraine left a man dead, officials said Sunday.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Belgorod, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that a woman was killed when shelling struck a private home in the border town of Shebekino, while a man died in a drone strike on the village of Rakitnoe.
The Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, has faced frequent cross-border attacks since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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In Ukraine, a man was killed and residential buildings and infrastructure were damaged by Russian shelling in Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, Serhii Horbunov, head of the city鈥檚 military administration, said Sunday.
The latest round of attacks came after Russia launched a targeting regions across Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding dozens. Russia launched 619 drones and missiles during the attack, Ukraine鈥檚 air force said.
Also on Saturday, Estonia summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after three Russian fighter aircraft entered its airspace without permission Friday and stayed there for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said. It happened just over a week after and heightened fears that the war in Ukraine could spill over.
Writing on social media site X on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had been targeted by 鈥渕ore than 1,500 strike drones, over 1,280 guided aerial bombs, and 50 missiles of various types鈥 over the previous week.
Noting that 鈥渢housands of foreign components鈥 were found in the Russian weaponry, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was 鈥渃ounting on the 19th EU sanctions package to be truly painful, and on the United States to join the Europeans.鈥 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented the package of sanctions on Friday.
Zelenskyy expects to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly this week, where he has said he hopes to gauge how close Ukraine and its partners are to finalizing long-term security guarantees.
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Trump on Sunday morning in an exchange with reporters very briefly addressed the Russian incursion into Estonian airspace.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 like it,鈥 Trump said. Asked if the U.S. would back Poland and other Baltic states if they continue to face Russian aggression, Trump responded, 鈥淚 will.鈥
Russia鈥檚 Defense Ministry on Saturday denied its aircraft violated Estonia鈥檚 airspace.
