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Russian drone smashes into Kyiv school, no injuries, officials say

Children and staff sheltered in the school basement as emergency crews extinguished a fire and officials reported no casualties.

  • On September 30, Russia launched its heaviest combined overnight strike on Ukraine's energy grid in months, hitting 11 regions with nearly 190 drones and missiles and killing seven people, including a child.
  • Moscow's renewed fall-winter campaign aims to systematically dismantle Ukraine's transmission grid, following patterns from previous seasons as temperatures drop toward freezing and the country enters winter vulnerable to prolonged outages.
  • Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov reported Russia used a jet-powered drone carrying a specialized 40-kilogram cumulative-cutting warhead designed to destroy high-voltage pylons; strikes in Odesa damaged a business center, injuring one person.
  • Emergency power outages were introduced across Kyiv and surrounding regions as Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi ordered local authorities to accelerate backup power checks and generator connections at critical facilities 'as soon as possible.'
  • Ukraine has yet to secure funding for its 5.4 billion euro energy resilience plan, leaving the system exposed as the country faces another winter with insufficient interceptor stocks and incomplete protection measures.
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Spectator Australia broke the news in Australia on Sunday, September 27, 2026.
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