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Morning opening: Ukraine's Pavlohrad marks a day of mourning after Russian attack kills five

Jakub Krupa

The Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad marks a day of mourning today after a Russian attack killed five people yesterday, with two more killed and 79 injured in total in the wider Dnipropetrovsk region.

Firefighters put out a fire following a Russian air attack in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine. Photograph: Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP

“This is another crime by Russia against peaceful people. Those who lived, worked, and raised children. Russian attacks bring death and destruction to our cities and villages,” Dnipropetrovsk governor Oleksandr Hanzha said.

Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said “Russia is systematically attacking places where it knows people will be spending their time going about their daily lives, seeking to maximise casualties, spread fear, and put pressure on Ukrainian society.”

“This is a tactic of coercion. Russia believes that relentless attacks on civilians can exhaust Ukrainians and force Ukraine into concessions,” he said.

Reuters noted that a separate attack on the petrol station in Kyiv and on an agribusiness facility in the southeastern city of Dnipro added to Russia’s ​intensified air campaign in recent weeks.

Ukrainian prime minister Sergii Koretskyi said Russian attacks on businesses and civilian ‌infrastructure were “rapidly growing” and urged the government to “react and act in advance”.

A burnt-out car is at a petrol station attacked by a Russian drone in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Ukrinform/Shutterstock

I will keep an eye on updates from Ukraine and across Europe.

It’s Friday, 11 September 2026, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.

Good morning.

Key events

Ukrainian oil company Ukrnafta reported two of its petrol stations were hit simultaneously on Friday morning.

“This is yet another deliberate strike on civilian facilities that provide people with fuel and essential goods,” CEO Bogdan Kukura wrote on social media.

“There is no military objective in such attacks. This is terror against the civilian population,” AFP reports he added.

The number of people injured in this morning’s attack has gone up to eight, Klitschko just said.

Two dead, six injured in Kyiv petrol station attack

Two people have died and up to six were injured in this morning’s Russian attack on a petrol station in Kyiv, city mayor Wladimir Klitschko said in the latest update.

Four people remain in the city’s hospitals, he added.

Firefighters put out a fire after a Russian drone hit a gas station in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Five dead, 40 injured in a Dutch tour bus crash in Switzerland

In other news, five people died, and 40 were injured after a Dutch tour bus crashed into a roadside barrier and overturned in eastern Switzerland.

Emergency responders at the site of a crash involving a bus carrying a Dutch tour party, which flipped over in Susch, Switzerland. Photograph: Jon Duschletta/ENGADINER POST/Reuters

Three people remain in serious condition at hospital.

According to the Dutch Federation of Travel Agencies, ANVR, the coach left the Netherlands on Monday and was on a day trip to Switzerland from Austria when the crash happened.

Four people injured in new Russian attacks on Kyiv petrol stations

Four people were injured in the renewed petrol station attacks this morning, according to local authorities in Kyiv.

Two more petrol stations in Kyiv reportedly hit by Russian strikes

After a petrol station was hit in Kyiv yesterday, two more were reportedly targeted this morning in the Oblonskyi and Dniprovskyi districts of the capital.

That’s according to Kyiv mayor, Wladimir Klitschko.

Emergency services are attending.

A rescuer walks past a burnt-out car at a petrol station attacked by a Russian drone in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine yesterday. Photograph: Ukrinform/Shutterstock

Morning opening: Ukraine's Pavlohrad marks a day of mourning after Russian attack kills five

The Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad marks a day of mourning today after a Russian attack killed five people yesterday, with two more killed and 79 injured in total in the wider Dnipropetrovsk region.

Firefighters put out a fire following a Russian air attack in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine. Photograph: Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP

“This is another crime by Russia against peaceful people. Those who lived, worked, and raised children. Russian attacks bring death and destruction to our cities and villages,” Dnipropetrovsk governor Oleksandr Hanzha said.

Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said “Russia is systematically attacking places where it knows people will be spending their time going about their daily lives, seeking to maximise casualties, spread fear, and put pressure on Ukrainian society.”

“This is a tactic of coercion. Russia believes that relentless attacks on civilians can exhaust Ukrainians and force Ukraine into concessions,” he said.

Reuters noted that a separate attack on the petrol station in Kyiv and on an agribusiness facility in the southeastern city of Dnipro added to Russia’s ​intensified air campaign in recent weeks.

Ukrainian prime minister Sergii Koretskyi said Russian attacks on businesses and civilian ‌infrastructure were “rapidly growing” and urged the government to “react and act in advance”.

A burnt-out car is at a petrol station attacked by a Russian drone in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Ukrinform/Shutterstock

I will keep an eye on updates from Ukraine and across Europe.

It’s Friday, 11 September 2026, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.

Good morning.