Russian drones strike Kyiv, killing three as violence spreads to Poland's border
Russian drones attacked civilian targets in Kyiv on 28 September, killing three people and wounding at least 24 others, including a woman who worked with Ukraine's former National Security Council. Poland scrambled military jets after drones approached its airspace and briefly ordered residents in border regions to seek shelter. Strikes also killed additional people across Ukraine and Russia as the conflict continues to destabilise NATO's eastern frontier.
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A Russian drone struck the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv on Monday, igniting the 19th-century building as staff escaped through first- and second-floor windows. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that 24 people were injured across the capital during Monday's attacks, with six requiring hospitalisation, and one woman killed. Ukrainian outlet Ukrainska Pravda identified the deceased as Nataliia Bukalo, an assistant to Volodymyr Horbulin, the former secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council.
In a separate strike, Russian drones hit the Dobrobut medical centre in Kyiv, injuring seven people, six of them staff members, according to Ukrainska Pravda. The headquarters and data centres of mobile operator Kyivstar also came under attack, with one facility struck twice, resulting in injuries to two children and one adult; Russia claimed it had also targeted a Vodafone Ukraine data centre. The Guardian noted that jet-powered drones are increasingly deployed against targets in the capital during daylight hours. Academy president Anatoliy Zagorodny expressed incomprehension at the targeting of a civilian scientific institution, characterising the attack as "terrorism."
Violence extended beyond Kyiv. The Associated Press reported that retaliatory strikes killed at least eight people across Ukraine and one in Russia, with attacks reaching Kyiv's outskirts, Kharkiv and Odesa oblasts, Sumy, Russian-occupied Enerhodar and Russia's Belgorod region. According to Reuters, Poland scrambled military aircraft in response to the strikes on Ukraine, briefly instructing residents in the eastern Lublin Voivodeship to seek shelter before lifting the alert, underscoring how the conflict continues to destabilise NATO's eastern boundary.
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