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At least 2 killed, 8 injured in Kyiv as Russia drones, missile strike market, gas station in hours-long attacks
Confirmed
In Short: Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 124 drones during Monday’s attacks, including 86 jet-powered drones.
Russian forces hit Kyiv's National Academy of Sciences and other sites in a series of attacks on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding 43 others, according to Ukrainian officials.
The attacks included strikes on a market, a gas station, and a pharmaceutical plant, causing extensive damage across the city.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported that at least one person was killed and six others were injured in the attack on the National Academy of Sciences.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital left 19 people, including three children, injured.
Three people, including an Azerbaijani national, were also killed in strikes on the wider Kyiv Oblast overnight, with a further eight sustaining injuries, authorities announced.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukrainian forces had targeted two defense plants in Russia's Tula and Voronezh regions on Sunday night.
Zelenskyy said sanctions were also launched against facilities used for drone terror in the Kaluga and Oryol regions, and a target was hit in the Black Sea.
The number of jet-powered drones launched has spiked eightfold since June, rising from 350 documented that month to 2,850 in August.
Zelenskyy said Kyiv is accelerating production of air defense systems capable of intercepting the jet-powered drones.
The attacks came amid a day of devastation in Kyiv with multiple hours-long attacks reported across the capital.
Children, elderly people, and a person on crutches walked alongside draft-age men who were likely Russian soldiers wearing civilian clothes, according to Khartiia Corps' drone footage.
What this adds
The attacks mark one of the heaviest strikes since Russia began using faster, harder-to-intercept jet drones.
The number of drones launched in a single wave has fallen from its peak in May, but the share of jet-powered drones has risen sharply in recent months.
Little is known about the production numbers and scale of air defense systems capable of intercepting the jet-powered drones.
Background
Russian drones hit Kyiv, killing two people and injuring 43, in one of the heaviest strikes since Russia began using faster, harder-to-intercept jet drones.
The attack, described by United24 as the deepest Ukrainian drone strike inside Russia since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, came as U.S. peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
What's confirmed
- Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS) said at least one person was killed and six others were injured in the attack.
- "By destroying educational and scientific infrastructure, Russia is attempting to intimidate children, parents, educators, and scientists, and to disrupt the educational process and the normal operations of our institutions," Andrii Butenko, Ukraine's Minister of Education and Science said in a social media post.
- Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital on Monday had left 19 people, including three children, injured.
- Initial reports said one person was killed after Russia struck a historic building belonging to Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv.
What's still developing
- A three-story business center was also hit in the Sviatoshynskyi district, adding to the damage reported across Kyiv throughout the day.
- “Every Russian terrorist attack results in casualties that could have been prevented had the pressure on Russia finally become total,” Zelensky said.
- While the number of drones launched in a single wave has fallen from its peak in May, the share of jet-powered drones has risen sharply in recent months.
- Eyewitness footage from the scene of the strike on the market shows flames engulfing vehicles in the parking lot.
- Over central Kyiv, air defense systems were reported to be active, filling the city with sounds of blasts and explosions amid a nine-hour-long air raid alert.
- According to a Kyiv Independent journalist, authorities also halted trains set to depart during the attack, evacuating passengers to underground shelters.
- Later in the overnight hours of Sept. 28, amid a newly issued air raid alerts, drones reportedly had damaged an unspecified "non-residential building" in the Podil district of Kyiv.
- "This past week, the Russians launched more than 2,200 attack drones against Ukraine, as well as around 1,650 aerial bombs and 38 missiles of various types, a significant number of them ballistic missiles," said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
- He said he did not know why Russia targeted the scientific institution.
- Video shows first responders saving people from the burning hospital as rescue operations continue. pic.twitter.com/W7yEuUbSxd Russian attacks across Ukraine on Monday killed at least nine people and wounded more than 50 others, with a pharmaceutical company, gas stations, apartment buildings, offices, warehouses and data centers among the sites hit.
- Today in Kyiv, a pharmaceutical company and… pic.twitter.com/ccfIHnGFNg Emergency services keep working at the site of the direct strike on the Academy of Sciences building in Kyiv.
- Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · 1:04 PM ET In Short: Russian drones hit Kyiv, killing two people and injuring 43, in one of the heaviest strikes since Russia began using faster, harder-to-intercept jet drones.
Sources
- The Kyiv Independentlink
- Warpbeatlink
- Al Jazeeralink
- Reuterslink
- Peopledailylink
- CBS Newslink
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- Kyivpostlink
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- WarpBeat — background on Ukraine Strikes Deep into Russia with Drones Amid Peace Talks link
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — video link