London – Russia continued its night attacks on Ukraine, including the capital kyiv, while the president of the United States, Donald Trump, prepared to leave for his state visit to the United Kingdom on Tuesday, with the efforts of the White House to negotiate peace among the combatants that still stagnated.
The Ukraine Air Force said that Russia launched 113 drones to the country during the night until Tuesday morning, of which 89 were demolished or suppressed. Twenty -two drones hit six locations, with debris that fall in two locations.
The aerial defenses were active in the sky on Kyiv, local officials said there. Drones attacks caused fires in a mall and an industrial installation on the outskirts of the capital, the Ukraine state emergency service in Telegram reported.
“During fire extinction, the aggressor played the site again, damaging two fire rescue vehicles,” the service said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian attacks were reported in the regions of kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaoprizhzhia Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kherson. “Now is the time to implement a joint defense of our European sky with a multicapa air defense system,” he wrote in Telegram.
Firefighters work on the building site beaten during a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on September 16, 2025.
UKRAI state emergency service/via reuters
At least one person was killed by the Russian bombings in the first -line Donetsk region in East Ukraine, while two people died in southern Zaporizhzhia, according to officials of both regions.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said its forces knocked at least 87 Ukrainian drones during the night until Tuesday.
It is expected that the current ongoing invasion of Russia, which began in February 2022, is a topic of discussion when Trump meets with the British prime minister Keir Starmer during his visit to the United Kingdom.
Great Britain is a prominent member of the so -called “Coalition of the provisions”, a group of mostly European allied nations who have pledged to expand military support to Ukraine and possibly deploy troops in the country as part of a postwar peace maintenance force.
Trump has ruled out deploying US troops within Ukraine, although he hinted at the possible participation of US aerial assets in any future peace maintenance mission. Moscow has repeatedly said that it will not accept the presence of foreign troops on Ukrainian soil.
A month after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the meeting in person proposed by Trump between Putin and Zelenskyy has not yet been completed.
Meanwhile, Russia has intensified its long -range attacks in Ukraine. During one of those strikes last week, around two dozen Russian drones entered Poland, with much, the largest of Russian drones in NATO airspace. At least three of the drones were demolished by responding Poles and Dutch combatants.
NATO has responded by launching the Eastern Sentry operation, which says it will improve its air defense position along the eastern edge of the block. Some allies are pressing for more action. Poles Foreign Minister, Radoslav Sikorski, for example, has suggested that NATO should demolish Russian drones that operate in western Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military travel in Quads in the Donetsk region on September 14, 2025.
Tetiana Dzhafava/AFP through Getty Images
Trump raised concerns along the Eastern NATO border when he said that Russian drones raids in Poland “could have been a mistake,” a suggestion quickly challenged by Warsaw.
“We would also want the drone attack against Poland to be an error. But it was not. And we know it,” said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on social networks.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials are still pressing for extended sanctions and tariffs that Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose Russia in response to Moscow’s refusal to accept a high fire or peace agreement.
On Monday, Zelenskyy previously previous “an active week of our diplomacy” in a telegram post.
“Now, a week before [United Nations] General Assembly: President Trump will be in Europe, “Zelenskyy wrote.” We continue our very active work with European leaders to ensure that we are all coordinated and that they really make decisions to press Russia. “
“And if the world does not offer a truly tangible response to the prolongation of the Russian war, if the sanctions and rates are postponed, if the Russian army can already launch drones with impunity even against Poland, Putin will continue to see it as permission to fight the war,” Zelenskyy said.
