Overnight Strikes Leave Seven Dead Across Russia and Ukraine Amid Rising Tensions with Germany

Fresh aerial attacks by Russia and Ukraine have left at least six people dead in Ukraine and one in Russia. The exchanges happened overnight and on Sunday, September 27, 2026, just hours after Moscow rejected German calls to ease its military escalation.

Casualties And Attacks

In Kyiv, a man died after a drone hit a non-residential building overnight, while later strikes on the capital's outskirts killed one person and wounded five others according to local administration head Tymur Tkachenko. Another drone hit a nine-story apartment block in Kyiv, wounding at least one woman. Russian guided bombs also struck the northern city of Sumy on Sunday afternoon, killing a woman and a 16-year-old girl while wounding five others. In the southern Odesa region, an overnight attack killed one person and wounded two. Meanwhile, in Russian-occupied Enerhodar, a Ukrainian strike killed a civilian woman and wounded two others according to Kremlin-installed Mayor Maxim Pukhov. In Russia's Belgorod border region, a woman died in a hospital on Sunday after a previous Ukrainian strike.

Diplomatic Tensions

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia struck a data center twice in Kyiv on Sunday morning, wounding two children and an adult. Russia's Defence Ministry stated its forces targeted data centers providing internet to Ukraine's armed forces. The violence follows a tense meeting at the UN General Assembly between Russia's top diplomat Sergey Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, held at Germany's request. Lavrov dismissed the talks after Wadephul condemned Russia's actions. Ties between Moscow and Berlin have worsened following an attempted drone attack last month at Leipzig airport that Berlin blamed on the Kremlin.

Context

Both nations have frequently targeted critical infrastructure and urban areas as the long-running war continues with front lines largely unchanged. The conflict involves heavy use of long-range drones, missiles, and guided bombs by Moscow alongside cross-border drone strikes by Kyiv against Russian territory.