Russia attacked Kyiv for a third consecutive night on Sept. 26-27, launching 170 attack drones that sparked fires in the Shevchenkivskyi and Solomianskyi districts, leaving one dead and several injured. The same day, other Ukrainian regions came under heavy strikes too.
Ukraine's capital endured a third consecutive night of large-scale attacks: overnight into Sept. 27, dozens of attack drones hit Kyiv, sparking fires in two districts of the city at once. One person was killed and several were injured.
According to the Air Force, Russia launched 170 Shahed-type attack drones nationwide (76 of them jet-powered), along with Gerbera and Parodiya decoy drones, launched from the Oryol, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Shatalovo areas of Russia as well as temporarily occupied Donetsk Oblast and Hvardiiske in Crimea. As of 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 27, air defenses had shot down or suppressed 147 of them. In Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district, a drone struck a residential building that had no occupants at the time at around 10 p.m. on Sept. 26, and another, non-residential site was hit the following morning; in the Solomianskyi district, debris from a downed drone damaged a five-story residential building and sparked fires at a warehouse and a car service center. In total, hits were recorded at 18 locations across Kyiv, with falling debris reported at 8 more.
This is the third consecutive night the enemy has attacked Kyiv with a large number of drones — the night before, Sept. 25-26, a strike damaged an office building where rescuers had to put out a fire on the roof. The repeated overnight attacks strain Ukraine's already limited air-defense resources and force Kyiv residents into shelters night after night.
The attacks of the past day were not confined to Kyiv. According to official tallies, at least six people were killed nationwide over the preceding 24 hours: two in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, two in Donetsk Oblast, one in Kherson Oblast, and one in Sumy Oblast, with at least five more injured in Kyiv itself. In Zaporizhzhia, a drone strike hit a local market, and rescuers were seen combing through the wreckage of damaged market stalls.
Behind every tally of downed drones are specific stairwells with blown-out windows, children who once again didn't get enough sleep in a shelter, and families who need help right now. NGO Volunteers Support Ukraine continues to help people affected by the war in whatever way its available resources allow — because it's on nights like this one that this help is needed most.
