Large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukraine killed five and injured 16

Russia carried out a large-scale combined strike on Ukraine overnight October 4–5, launching 549 aerial assets — including loitering munitions, ballistic, and cruise missiles. The main target was Lviv Oblast, but strikes hit 20 locations across Ukraine also in Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Kirovohrad oblasts.

Ukraine’s Air Force reported that air defenses intercepted or jammed 478 targets, including 439 Shahed and Gerbera drones, 32 cruise missiles (Kh-101/Iskander-K), 6 Kalibr cruise missiles, and 1 Kinzhal ballistic missile. Six Russian missiles malfunctioned mid-flight.

Despite the high interception rate, 8 missiles and 57 drones penetrated defenses, causing direct hits, while falling debris was reported in six additional locations.

In Lviv, a residential building was destroyed, killing four family members, while a nearby industrial park erupted in flames, leaving parts of the city without power and prompting mayor Andriy Sadovyi to urge residents to shelter in place amid raging fires. Described as the largest attack on the Lviv region since the war's onset, the barrage involved high-precision weapons like Kalibr cruise missiles, Kh-101s, Kinzhal hypersonics, and Shahed drones, highlighting Russia's strategy to cripple Ukraine's power grid ahead of winter. Nationwide, the assault claimed at least five lives and wounded dozens more, stretching Ukraine's air defenses thin as they intercepted some threats but struggled against the sheer volume. According to the latest update, the fifth victim died in one of the city`s hospitals.

Emergency crews in Lviv worked through the dawn to extinguish blazes and clear rubble from sites like the village of Lapaivka, where covered bodies underscored the human toll, as the city grapples with blackouts and vows resilience against Russia's intensified hybrid warfare tactics. It was the biggest aerial attack on Lviv since the beginning of the full-scale war.

In Zaporizhia, Russian forces fired drones and glide bombs, hitting an industrial enterprise and residential buildings. A major energy facility was also damaged, cutting off power to a significant number of consumers in the city and surrounding region, the Energy Ministry reported. A missile slammed into a high-rise residential building. One person was killed, and at least 10 others—including three children—were injured, with two hospitalized in serious condition from blast and smoke inhalation injuries.

In Vinnytsia, a Russian attack hit an industrial civilian facility, the Vinnytsya Regional Military Administration reported. There were no injuries.

Russian bombs injured six in Sloviansk, including a child

Russian forces bombed Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast late on October 4, injuring six people — two women, three men, and a child — according to the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office. All are receiving medical care.

The strike hit a residential apartment building and damaged at least 26 houses, over 20 cars, and several businesses, including shops and cafes. Prosecutors have launched an investigation into war crimes.

The attack came amid a wider overnight assault on October 5, when drones and missiles killed at least five people and injured 16 across Ukraine. Civilian infrastructure and businesses remain frequent targets of Russian strikes, with many Ukrainian business owners left to cover repair costs themselves.

Putin reiterates that Tomahawk missiles in Ukraine would ruin the Russia-USA relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a stark warning on October 3, 2025, during a foreign policy forum in Sochi, reiterating that the United States supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would represent a "qualitatively new stage of escalation" and severely damage relations between Moscow and Washington. He emphasized that deploying these long-range weapons, capable of striking deep into Russian territory, would be impossible without direct American military involvement, effectively crossing a critical red line in the ongoing conflict. Despite the potential threat, Putin downplayed the missiles' impact on the battlefield, asserting that Russian forces are advancing steadily and that air defenses would swiftly adapt to neutralize them. The comments followed reports of Ukraine's formal request to the Trump administration for the missiles, amid stalled peace talks and growing U.S. frustration with Russia's intransigence.