LONDON — Russia launched 614 air assault munitions into Ukraine in a single day into Thursday, the air power in Kyiv reported, in what the nation’s International Minister Andrii Sybiha referred to as a “large mixed air strike” on targets across the nation.
The air power mentioned Russia launched 574 drones and 40 missiles in its in a single day barrage, of which 546 drones and 31 missiles had been intercepted or in any other case suppressed. Impacts had been reported throughout 11 places, the air power mentioned.
“Opposite to all efforts to finish the conflict, Russia undertook a large mixed air strike on Ukraine in a single day,” Sybiha mentioned in a put up to X, saying that “civilian and power infrastructure” had been among the many targets.
“One of many missiles struck a significant American electronics producer in our westernmost area, resulting in severe injury and casualties,” the international 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 facility hit by a Russian missile strike in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia area, Ukraine, on Aug. 21, 2025.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned the selection of the goal was “very telling.”
“It was an unusual 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 like there isn’t any effort from the world to cease this conflict,” Zelenskyy added. “A response is required to this. There may be nonetheless no sign from Moscow that they’re actually going to enter significant negotiations and finish this conflict. Strain is required. Sturdy sanctions, sturdy tariffs.”
Native authorities mentioned that at the very least 19 folks had been injured within the Mukachevo assault. Sybiha mentioned the positioning was “a totally 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 workplaces in Kyiv earlier this 12 months and different assaults,” Sybiha mentioned.
Within the western metropolis of Lviv, round 40 miles east of the Polish border, at the very least one individual was killed and three folks injured by Russian strikes, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi mentioned on Telegram.
Russia’s newest assault was its largest since July 12, in line with information revealed by Ukraine’s air power and analyzed by ABC Information, and breaks with the pattern thus far 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 to this point through which the variety of Russian drones launched exceeded 500, in line with the Ukrainian air power’s information.
The strikes once more prompted the scrambling of NATO plane in Poland. Swedish Air Drive JAS 39 Gripen fighters had been among the many sources deployed, Poland’s Operational Command wrote in a put up to X.
“In reference to the exercise of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, conducting strikes on Ukrainian territory — together with with using hypersonic missiles — plane of the Polish Air Drive and allied aviation are working in Polish airspace,” the command wrote.
Round three hours later, the command reported a “discount within the stage of risk” and a return to “normal operational actions.”
Russia’s Protection Ministry, in the meantime, mentioned its forces downed at the very least 71 Ukrainian drones in a single day into Thursday.
Explosions are seen within the evening sky as Ukrainian servicemen hearth in the 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 power facility was broken by a falling drone and that the assaults brought on delays to rail companies within the area.
The state-run Tass information company cited Russia’s atomic power company, Rosenergoatom, as reporting that one unit on the Novovoronezh Nuclear Energy Plant was briefly disconnected from the grid.
In Rostov area, Gov. Yuri Slyusar mentioned a fireplace broke out at an industrial enterprise after a drone assault. “To date, nobody has been injured. Emergency companies are on the scene,” Slyusar wrote.
