Civilians killed, injured as Russia launches large-scale attack 2nd night in a row.

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Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least seven people and injured at least 34 over the past day, regional authorities reported on Aug.

27. Russia launched a combined wave of attacks against Ukraine for the second night in a row, reportedly using 81 Shahed-type attack drones and 10 missiles. Overall, Russian forces launched three Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missiles from MiG-31K aircraft, five Kh-101 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS bomber planes, one Iskander-M ballistic missile, and one Iskander-K cruise missile, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said.

Five Kh-101 cruise missiles and 60 drones were intercepted by Ukrainian defenses, the commander noted. Russia attacked Kyiv Oblast and Kyiv with drones and missiles, with an air raid alert ongoing for eight hours. No damage or victims were reported.

Around 10 attack drones and several missiles were downed near Kyiv, said city administration head Serhii Popko, adding that "everything that flew to the capital was destroyed." Several Russian drones targeted Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast overnight on Aug.

27, resulting in three civilian deaths, regional governor Ivan Fedorov reported.

Regional authorities show the aftermath of Russia's attack on Zaporizhzhia Oblast overnight on Aug.

27, 2024. (Ivan Fedorov/Zaporizhzhia Military Administration/Telegram)

Five civilians were injured in the attack, including an 86-year-old woman. Four of them are currently being treated in a local hospital.

Several homes were damaged by blast waves and debris from the attack, and a fire occurred in a field, Fedorov said, adding that at least 128 drones attacked the region over the past 24 hours. In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, three people were killed and 13 injured over the past day, Governor Serhii Lysak reported. Eight of the injured and one fatality were reported during the day on Aug.

26 following Russian attacks against the Nikopol district. Late at night, a Russian Iskander missile struck a hotel in the city of Kryvyi Rih, killing at least two people and injuring at least five, Lysak reported. In Kharkiv Oblast, four people were injured when Russia struck an infrastructure facility with an Iskander missile, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov.

Russian attacks against Kherson Oblast killed one person and injured 10 others, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported. A critical infrastructure site, medical and educational institutions, high-rise buildings, houses, and other buildings were reportedly damaged. One person was injured in Russian attacks against Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast on Aug.

26, Governor Vadym Filashkin reported. Another civilian was injured during drone attacks in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, said Serhii Tiurin, the regional governor. Eight drones were downed over the oblast, with at least two houses catching fire as a result.

Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, and Sumy oblasts also came under attack, but no casualties were reported.

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Viktoriia Skyba, a 29-year-old mother of two, didn't have the time to reach a bomb shelter when Russia attacked her town during what Ukrainian officials have said is the largest attack on Ukraine since the full-scale invasion.

She saw a missile flying above her house and a large pillar of