Overnight into Sept. 28, Russia again struck Ukrainian cities en masse: guided bombs on Kharkiv, guided bombs on Sumy, a drone on a market in Kyiv region, and a mass strike on Odesa region. There are dead and dozens injured.
Overnight into Sept. 28, 2026, and over the preceding day, Russia carried out a series of strikes on Ukrainian cities — Kharkiv, Sumy, and the Odesa and Kyiv regions. According to combined reporting from Al Jazeera, Ukrinform and local authorities, at least eight people were killed and dozens injured on Sept. 27 alone, with fresh casualties added in Kharkiv on the morning of Sept. 28. Volunteers Support Ukraine checks reports like this against multiple independent sources every day before including them in its news roundup.
Early on Monday, Sept. 28, Russia struck Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs — the city was hit twice overnight, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. One bomb struck a residential building directly, damaging the second and third floors in the Saltivskyi district; at least 22 people were injured, including eight children. Two boys, aged 8 and 12, were hospitalized. The Kharkiv Regional Military Administration confirmed the scale of destruction in the city's Saltivskyi and Kyivskyi districts. Volunteers Support Ukraine notes that Kharkiv, one of Ukraine's largest cities, endures strikes like this almost nightly.
On Sept. 27, Russian forces struck Sumy with three guided aerial bombs. One strike hit near the Family and Children's Support Centre, damaging the building, though no visitors were present at the time. An elderly woman and 16-year-old Kateryna were killed; witnesses said Kateryna was running for shelter when she was killed by a tree felled by the blast wave. Five more people, including one child, were injured. Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Vyhivskyi confirmed three deaths in Sumy as part of the day's overall toll. Volunteers Support Ukraine extends its condolences to the families of those killed.
In southern Odesa region, a "massive strike" damaged residential buildings, a hospital, a hotel, a shop and a grain storage facility; one person was killed, according to regional governor Oleh Kiper. The same evening, a drone struck a market in the village of Sofiivska Borshchahivka in Kyiv region's Bucha district, killing two people and injuring three more, said Kyiv Regional Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko. Kyiv itself saw fires break out in several districts and several people injured. These events were part of a broader wave: on one recent night alone, Russia launched more than 170 attack drones at Ukraine, a large share of them jet-powered Shaheds.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that over the past week alone, Russia fired roughly 2,200 attack drones, 1,630 aerial bombs and 38 missiles at Ukraine — calling it a direct rebuttal of any claim that Moscow is preparing to de-escalate. Volunteers Support Ukraine continues to help people affected by the war in whatever way its available resources and capacity allow, and sees it as its duty to document verified facts about attacks like these every day — without exaggeration and without minimizing them, relying solely on official sources and credible international outlets.
