September 7 Massive Strike: 805 Drones, 13 Missiles Hit Ukraine

September 7, 2025October 30, 2025

Last night, the enemy launched the most massive air attack of the entire war. The September 7 massive strike became a new record in scale — as always, a swarm of drones formed the attack’s backbone, and this time there were especially many of them. Overall, there’s nothing surprising here, but the enemy tried to use all types of missiles in such attacks as well.

However, this time the missile component turned out smaller than expected. At least, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine provided such preliminary data regarding the enemy attack’s nature.

Attack Breakdown

By individual categories, it looks like this (Launched/Shot down):

– 805/747 strike UAVs of Shahed type and decoy drones of various types;
– 9/4 Iskander-K cruise missiles;
– 4/0 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles.

Strikes recorded 9 missile hits and 56 strike UAV hits at 37 locations. In total, Ukrainian air defense detected 818 targets in the airspace controlled by the Armed Forces, neutralizing 751 of them. At the time of the report, the attack hadn’t completely finished yet and some drones were still in the air, so the overall interception statistics may still change.

Kyiv Under Fire

Obviously, it’s easier for me personally to reflect on what happened in Kyiv, because I managed to see and hear part of what happened. Although strikes also hit Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava oblasts and probably other places. This graphic reflects it visually:

Clearly, this gives an approximate reflection of what actually happened, however, perhaps it provides an idea of how everything unfolded. But looking at this map, I’ll still draw attention to the fact that most aerial targets are no longer being shot down over the capital, as was the case before. And if the statistics are correct, then air defense repelled even such a huge wave of aerial targets quite adequately. I can’t even imagine what this would look like in Israel, for example, and there’s no point even talking about Europe. But let’s return to the capital.

According to preliminary data, several strikes hit residential buildings — a four-story building in Darnytskyi district and high-rise buildings on the Right Bank. As has become standard practice, the enemy strikes precisely at residential areas, and such strikes, especially those with numerous casualties, bring particular joy to Khuilo* and his lackeys.

First Government Building Hit

According to preliminary data, Kyiv alone already counts two dead and about two dozen wounded. And for the first time in all the years of war, a strike on a government building got through. It hit the upper floors of the Cabinet of Ministers building. Obviously, no one was there at that time, and something tells us that when an air raid alert happens during working hours, everyone goes underground there, because all government buildings have a network of underground galleries. That is, under any circumstances, hardly anyone would have suffered there.

This particular hit will dominate all the world press today, pushing strikes on residential areas out of the information space. In this regard, several considerations arise. Photos that captured the actual fire in the Cabinet of Ministers building and the moments of extinguishing it show several damaged offices. The building’s structure is quite solid, and the munitions used today are clearly insufficient to cause any serious destruction there. So the consequences of the strike and fire there differ completely from those in residential buildings.

Isn’t it time for the “dear Muscovites” to get used to what we have long been accustomed to over three and a half years? After all, the enemy capital contains countless stationary military facilities which, under the Geneva Convention, are direct military targets. The September 7 massive strike on Ukraine once again proves that this war will not end until the aggressor faces the same consequences on its own territory.

*Khuilo — the most popular nickname for putin (literally “dickhead” or “cocksucker”), widely used since the 2014 invasion. See more on Wikipedia.