Russian drone smashes into Kyiv school, no injuries, officials say
More than 100 children and 60 teachers were in shelter when the drone hit, and firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, officials said.
- On Thursday, October 1, Russian air strikes injured one person in Kyiv and another in Odesa, Ukrainian emergency services reported, as drones and missiles targeted the capital and Black Sea port city.
- The strikes mark the beginning of Russia's massive fall-winter campaign against Ukraine's energy infrastructure, with officials describing it as the heaviest combined assault on the power grid since last spring.
- Presidential defence adviser Serhii Beskrestnov reported Russia's first use of jet-powered drones equipped with a 40-kilogram shaped-charge warhead designed to destroy high-voltage pylons and bridge structures.
- A drone struck Kyiv's Pivdennyi Bridge, disrupting metro services, while another hit a school in the Solomianskyi district where students sheltered safely, Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed.
- With strained air defences and a harsh winter approaching, Ukraine requires funding for its €5.4 billion energy resilience plan to protect critical infrastructure from escalating aerial assaults.
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The Russian attack of the night hit "a 25-storey residential building", announced on Friday the military authorities of the Ukrainian capital on Telegram.
The Pivdeni bridge and other structures were damaged and closed to traffic
Russian armed forces also attacked the southern bridge in Kiev on Thursday.
For the second day in a row, a key bridge over the Dnipro River in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been hit by Russian drones.
In a conversation at a school just bombed this Thursday, the president says Moscow is looking for “the Ukrainians to leave the capital”
Russia launched its first attack using jet-powered drones on the strategic 'Southern Bridge' on the Dnieper River east of Kyiv, aiming to cripple Ukraine's energy supplies and infrastructure just before winter.
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