Air Force Command of Ukraine
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a separate branch of Ukraine's military, responsible for air defence and air operations. It is led by a commander-in-chief appointed by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. The branch encompasses fighter, bomber, attack, transport and anti-aircraft aviation, together with radio-technical troops and air-defence units.
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Russian drone strike on Uman hits residential building, injures five
Russian drones struck Cherkasy Oblast overnight on 15–16 October, hitting the city of Uman at three locations and causing fires in a multi-storey residential building, a destroyed guardhouse, and a commercial warehouse area. Five people were injured, three of whom were hospitalised. The same wave of drone attacks also hit Lutsk, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chortkiv, and Kyiv.
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Russia launches massive combined missile and drone strike on Kyiv overnight, killing civilians including a child
In the night of 29–30 September 2026, Russia carried out a large-scale combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine with the main strike direction targeting Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast. Ukrainian air defense reported intercepting 5 ballistic missiles and 155 of 188 launched drones. Two women were killed in Kyiv and a child died in Vyshhorod, where rescuers pulled three survivors from the rubble of a destroyed house. Fires and damage were recorded in four Kyiv districts and across multiple Kyiv Oblast districts, and 8,000 Kyiv households lost power before DTEK restored supply.
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Russia hits Ukraine with 80 drones overnight; bus strike kills five, train evacuated
On the night of September 15–16, Russia launched 80 strike drones — including Shahed (some jet-powered), Gerbera, and Parodia decoy types — from Russian and occupied Crimean directions. Ukraine's Air Force Command reported that air defense shot down or suppressed 63 drones, with hits recorded at seven locations and falling debris at two. Downstream strikes and debris damaged a passenger bus, a passenger train, warehouses, and residential buildings across multiple regions, killing at least seven people.