Russian drones kill two in market outside Kyiv, three others in different regions, local officials say
- A Russian jet-powered drone strike hit the Stolychnyi wholesale market in Sofiiska Borshchahivka on the western outskirts of Kyiv, killing two people and injuring at least ten others as fires engulfed vehicles and stalls.
- Three additional civilian fatalities occurred in separate attacks across Ukraine, including two killed by glide bombs near a family support center in Sumy and one driver killed by a drone strike in Kharkiv.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that Russian forces deployed 277 attack drones within a 24-hour period, with strikes damaging residential high-rises, a kindergarten, communications infrastructure, and a building used by the Saudi ambassador.
- Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed that at least nine people were injured within the capital itself—including a child—amid extended air raid alerts across multiple districts.
- The Russian Defence Ministry acknowledged targeting facilities in Kyiv and Odesa, maintaining its long-standing claim that military, communications, and logistical infrastructure were the intended targets rather than civilians.
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Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight wounded dozens of people in the northeastern city of Kharkiv and killed two people in the Kiev region, Ukrainian authorities said. Kiev said a fire broke out in the building of the Academy of Sciences after the attack, claiming one life.
The site is located in the centre of the capital, in an area usually more spared than the rest of the city by Russian drones, close to embassies and government buildings.
Russian forces intensified their offensives on the Ukrainian capital with state-of-the-art drones, reaching a central historic building and taking the life of a civilian in a day of coordinated bombings across the country. Read
RUSSIAN forces today carried out a violent air attack on Kyiv, and one of the main targets was the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
One person was killed and three were wounded in the attack, says the mayor of Kiev.
A Russian drone caused a fire inside the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in the heart of Kiev. According to a first official report, a woman was killed and three people were injured in the attack. (ANSA)
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