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Russian Drone Hits Kyiv's Science Academy, Killing One
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In Short: A Russian drone hit the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring several others, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
A Russian drone hit the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring several others, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
The president of the national academy, Anatoliy Zagorodny, said the blast struck while many staff members were inside. He emphasized that the academy is a civilian scientific institution and not connected with the military.
The attack also hit a nearby private medical center, killing at least one person and injuring others.
In addition to the academy and the medical center, Russian drones struck non-residential buildings in Kyiv's Obolonskyi, Darnytskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts, according to Klitschko.
Zelenskyy called on Western countries to intensify their pressure on Russia, stating that every Russian attack is preventable if the international community applies total pressure.
The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that Ukraine will have to pay a price for its actions in recent months, referring to Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russian territory.
Russian strikes over the past week have hit apartment blocks, offices, warehouses, and data centers across the capital, killing and wounding civilians almost daily.
Ukraine is racing to develop and manufacture interceptors capable of bringing down the drones, as the interception rate for jet-powered drones is currently at 57 percent.
Zelenskyy detailed a report from Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) which showed that Russia had launched a new wave of mobilization for its military, a claim Putin dismissed as “utter nonsense.”
What this adds
The attack on the National Academy of Sciences marks a new phase in the conflict, with Russia increasingly targeting cultural and scientific landmarks in Kyiv.
Ukraine's Third Army Corps has recaptured 68 square miles from Russian forces since the start of Operation Vivaldi, which has seen the conversion of Soviet-era BTR-60 armored personnel carriers into kamikaze vehicles.
The Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences building was set ablaze, while Education and Sciences Minister Andrii Butenko reported that one of the ministry's buildings was also damaged.
A Ukrainian official told Kyiv Independent that Ukraine would agree to stop attacking Russian refineries, but only if Russia also agrees to an energy truce, a condition Kyiv has not yet accepted.
Background
A Russian drone attack on a medical center in Kyiv killed one woman and injured 21 others, including three children.
Russian strikes killed two people and wounded four others in a Kyiv market, as drones and missiles continued to batter the city.
What's confirmed
- “Ukraine will have to pay a price for the actions that have taken place in recent months,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters on Monday, referring to Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russian territory.
- Zelenskyy said long-range strikes on Russian soil hit two defense plants in the Tula and Voronezh regions and oil facilities in the Krasnodar region, all in southern and western Russia.
What's still developing
- He feared some of his colleagues could still be trapped inside the academy.
- Among those injured in Monday’s strike was Volodymyr Horbulin, the academy’s first vice-president and a former high-ranking security official.
- September 28, 2026 / 9:26 AM EDT / CBS/AP Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia's round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine killed at least seven people and wounded more than 50 others, officials said Monday.
- On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a fiery speech to the U.N. General Assembly that "Europe is doing everything it can to thwart peace talks in which the Trump administration is interested," seeking, as Moscow has done throughout the war, to portray a rift within the NATO alliance.
- Russian drone attacks on the Kyiv region killed four people and wounded eight, officials said.
- A Russian strike on a nine-story apartment building in the northeast city of Kharkiv wounded 43 people, including 11 children, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
- Four people, including two teenage girls, were hurt when a Russian drone struck a residential area in northern Ukraine's Chernihiv region on Sunday evening, said Viacheslav Chaus, head of the regional military administration.
- The Russian military also hit a cargo ship in the Black Sea and another one in the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk, the ministry said.
- Battlefield positions have changed little since last year, in part because swarms of drones severely restrict troop movements, but Kyiv's forces launched a recent offensive, code-named Operation Vivaldi, on part of the 800-mile front line.
- Ukraine's Third Army Corps said Monday it had recaptured another 20 square miles from the Russians, bringing the total to 68 square miles since the offensive began several months ago.
- The corps said that in order to break through Russian defenses, it converted Soviet-era BTR-60 armored personnel carriers into kamikaze vehicles that blew up the strongest Russian fortifications.
- The claimed breakthroughs came in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, which the bigger Russian army has been trying in vain to conquer.