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Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Bookseller Alexander Bahlai reacts as firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, early Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine early Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Firefighters shelter in a metro station following a siren alarm while they were trying to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine early Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv\u2019s largest aerial attacks of the war.<\/p>\n
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Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also increasingly pummeled giant Wildberries depots, burning billions of dollars\u2019 worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant. Those attacks have brought the war home to the Russian public nearly 4\u00bd years into Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Ukraine also came under Russian attack, with drone strikes destroying homes and torching Kyiv’s landmark book market.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense said it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight. Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third of those destroyed over the Moscow region itself.<\/p>\n
An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, local Gov. Andrey Vorobyov said. He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had sparked a blaze at a Wildberries warehouse in the town of Podolsk.<\/p>\n
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A drone attack targeted three towns in Russia\u2019s southwestern Rostov region, killing five people, local Gov. Yury Slyusar said. The attack, with more than 150 drones, damaged several homes and a railway station and sparked a forest fire.<\/p>\n
Russian strikes kill 5 in Ukraine<\/p>\n
A Russian missile attack on Ukraine\u2019s Kryvyi Rih killed two people and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media Sunday. He also said that one more person had been killed in the city of Sumy.<\/p>\n
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine\u2019s largest steel producer, confirmed that one of its sites had been hit in a missile attack and that operations had been partially suspended.<\/p>\n
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Elsewhere, a man and a woman died when their home was hit by a Russian strike in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, said Ivan Fedorov, the head of the local military administration.<\/p>\n
Russian attacks also sparked fires throughout the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, wounding six people. A blaze took hold at one of the city’s largest book markets, tearing through kiosks huddled close to the Pochaina metro station. Firefighters fought back the flames, which sent plumes of black smoke across the capital, and picked their way through rubble where the market’s crowded pavilions once stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that it had targeted a metallurgical plant in Kryvyi Rih and several military-industrial sites in Kyiv, including a manufacturing facility for Ukraine’s Flamingo missiles.<\/p>\n
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The domestically produced missiles are increasingly key to Ukraine’s long-range attacks on Russia, with Zelenskyy announcing Saturday that Kyiv had used the weapons to attack a rocket research and production center in Samara approximately 900 kilometers (560 miles) from the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n
NATO jet downs drone in Romanian airspace<\/p>\n
Romania\u2019s Ministry of National Defense said Sunday that a Spanish Air and Space Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace.<\/p>\n
The drone\u2019s entry into the NATO member\u2019s airspace was detected by surveillance systems at 4:44 a.m., the ministry said, about 24 kilometers (14.9 miles) north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with neighboring Moldova. Moldova is a landlocked country between Ukraine and Romania.<\/p>\n
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A Spanish F-18 aircraft that was performing air policing duties \u201cmade radar contact with the target and received engagement approval,\u201d the ministry said. \u201cThe drone was safely shot down by the F-18 aircraft at 05:01.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ministry later said that drone debris was also reported in the Black Sea around 10 a.m. on Sunday, about 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) from the coastal city of Constanta.<\/p>\n
Officials did not specify the drone\u2019s origin.<\/p>\n
The incident comes weeks after Romanian pilots shot down three drones over three days as Russia intensified attacks against Ukraine near the border. Since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Romania has reported dozens of drone incidents, including some that have crashed and exploded on its territory.<\/p>\n
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Acting Foreign Minister Oana Toiu said in a post on X that the Spanish deployment in Romania was scaled up \u201cat the request of Romania and NATO to bolster the Eastern Flank following prior drone incidents,\u201d and that it was Spain\u2019s fourth such deployment.<\/p>\n