LONDON — Russia launched 614 air assault munitions into Ukraine in a single day into Thursday, the air pressure in Kyiv reported, in what the nation’s Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha known as a “large mixed air strike” on targets across the nation.
The air pressure stated Russia launched 574 drones and 40 missiles in its in a single day barrage, of which 546 drones and 31 missiles have been intercepted or in any other case suppressed. Impacts have been reported throughout 11 places, the air pressure stated.
“Opposite to all efforts to finish the conflict, Russia undertook an enormous mixed air strike on Ukraine in a single day,” Sybiha stated in a publish to X, saying that “civilian and vitality infrastructure” have been among the many targets.
“One of many missiles struck a serious American electronics producer in our westernmost area, resulting in critical injury and casualties,” the overseas minister added of the assault in Mukachevo, a metropolis round 16 miles from the border with Hungary and and 25 miles from the border with Slovakia.
Firefighters work on the website of a Flextronics manufacturing unit hit by a Russian missile strike in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia area, Ukraine, on Aug. 21, 2025.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the selection of the goal was “very telling.”
“It was an atypical civilian enterprise, an American funding,” the president wrote on Telegram. “They produced such acquainted home goods as espresso machines. And that is additionally a goal for the Russians.”
“It looks as if there isn’t any effort from the world to cease this conflict,” Zelenskyy added. “A response is required to this. There’s nonetheless no sign from Moscow that they’re actually going to enter significant negotiations and finish this conflict. Strain is required. Robust sanctions, sturdy tariffs.”
Native authorities stated that no less than 19 folks have been injured within the Mukachevo assault. Sybiha stated the positioning was “a completely civilian facility that has nothing to do with protection or the navy.”
“This isn’t the primary Russian assault on American companies in Ukraine, after strikes on Boeing places of work in Kyiv earlier this yr and different assaults,” Sybiha stated.
Within the western metropolis of Lviv, round 40 miles east of the Polish border, no less than one individual was killed and three folks injured by Russian strikes, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi stated on Telegram.
Russia’s newest assault was its largest since July 12, based on information revealed by Ukraine’s air pressure and analyzed by ABC Information, and breaks with the pattern to this point in August of smaller-scale nightly barrages when in comparison with figures from June and July.
Wednesday evening’s assault was solely the fourth of the conflict thus far during which the variety of Russian drones launched exceeded 500, based on the Ukrainian air pressure’s information.
The strikes once more prompted the scrambling of NATO plane in Poland. Swedish Air Pressure JAS 39 Gripen fighters have been among the many assets deployed, Poland’s Operational Command wrote in a publish to X.
“In reference to the exercise of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, conducting strikes on Ukrainian territory — together with with the usage of hypersonic missiles — plane of the Polish Air Pressure and allied aviation are working in Polish airspace,” the command wrote.
Round three hours later, the command reported a “discount within the degree of risk” and a return to “normal operational actions.”
Russia’s Protection Ministry, in the meantime, stated its forces downed no less than 71 Ukrainian drones in a single day into Thursday.
Explosions are seen within the evening sky as Ukrainian servicemen hearth in direction of drones throughout a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 21, 2025.
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Voronezh area Gov. Aleksandr Gusev reported on Telegram that an vitality facility was broken by a falling drone and that the assaults induced delays to rail companies within the area.
The state-run Tass information company cited Russia’s atomic vitality company, Rosenergoatom, as reporting that one unit on the Novovoronezh Nuclear Energy Plant was quickly disconnected from the grid.
In Rostov area, Gov. Yuri Slyusar stated a hearth broke out at an industrial enterprise after a drone assault. “Up to now, nobody has been injured. Emergency companies are on the scene,” Slyusar wrote.
