Overview
- Multiple Russian-launched drones struck central Kyiv on Monday, Sept. 28, damaging the National Academy of Sciences and a building of the Education Ministry near Taras Shevchenko University.
- Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one woman was killed and 19 people were injured in the capital, including three children, and rescuers moved the wounded to hospitals.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said emergency teams were extinguishing fires and searching for people trapped inside affected buildings while authorities warned casualty and damage figures could still rise.
- Regional and local reporting confirmed related strikes outside Kyiv that killed three people and injured at least 12 in Dnipro and reported a fatality in Sinelnikovo in Dnipropetrovsk region.
- Officials say the attacks also hit a pharmaceutical site, gas stations and a business center and form part of a larger wave of drone strikes that Ukrainian air defenses have been contesting, increasing risks to civilian infrastructure and services.