Volodymyr Zelenskyy approved the retaliation plan proposed by the Security Service of Ukraine and the Army following the series of massive attacks launched by Russia against Ukrainian cities
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that he had approved proposals from Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and Armed Forces on how to respond to Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian cities. He said the military would find a way to retaliate, but that Kyiv would decide when to act.
Zelenskyy mentioned attacks on Kyiv and the Kyiv region, as well as the cities of Kharkiv, Sumy, Kherson and Odesa and several localities in the Dnipro and Donetsk regions. At the time his message was recorded, 12 people had been injured in the capital. Later, the toll announced by the Kyiv City Military Administration rose to 15 injured.
One of the attack’s targets was the SBU headquarters in central Kyiv. A Russian drone struck the office of Oleksandr Poklad, the service’s acting head, in a building on Volodymyrska Street. Poklad was not in the room. Zelenskyy had earlier said that the attack directly targeted him and asked him to prepare an “appropriate and concrete” response.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched one Kh-31P missile and 121 drones between the evening of September 3 and September 4. Ukraine said 103 drones were shot down or neutralized, but strikes were reported at 15 locations.
The announcement of the retaliation comes ahead of a new round of diplomatic contacts backed by the United States. Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to travel to Moscow and then Kyiv. Zelenskyy said Ukraine would not launch airstrikes against Russian airspace during their mission and urged Moscow to do the same.
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Zelenskyy mentioned attacks on Kyiv and the Kyiv region, as well as the cities of Kharkiv, Sumy, Kherson and Odesa and several localities in the Dnipro and Donetsk regions. At the time his message was recorded, 12 people had been injured in the capital. Later, the toll announced by the Kyiv City Military Administration rose to 15 injured.
One of the attack’s targets was the SBU headquarters in central Kyiv. A Russian drone struck the office of Oleksandr Poklad, the service’s acting head, in a building on Volodymyrska Street. Poklad was not in the room. Zelenskyy had earlier said that the attack directly targeted him and asked him to prepare an “appropriate and concrete” response.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched one Kh-31P missile and 121 drones between the evening of September 3 and September 4. Ukraine said 103 drones were shot down or neutralized, but strikes were reported at 15 locations.
The announcement of the retaliation comes ahead of a new round of diplomatic contacts backed by the United States. Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to travel to Moscow and then Kyiv. Zelenskyy said Ukraine would not launch airstrikes against Russian airspace during their mission and urged Moscow to do the same.
Translation note: “Russian airspace” is rendered literally from the source text, although the wording may be contextually unusual in English news reporting, as airstrikes are generally described as targeting territory or airspace rather than launching attacks against airspace itself. No factual change has been made.
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The response retains the source’s distinction between the initial figure of 12 injured and the later figure of 15 injured.
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The text states that Witkoff and Kushner are expected first in Moscow and then in Kyiv.
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