At least two people have been killed and a further eight injured in overnight attacks on Kyiv. Russian drones pounded the Ukrainian capital into the morning of Monday, 28th September, with civilian targets struck. It comes after a weekend of major bombardment on Kyiv and across Ukraine, with Russian drones targeting civilian infrastructure including kindergartens and schools.
Ukraine War Update: Food Market Attacked
Putin Back in 2009. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Putin in May 2025. Image Credit: Russian Federation Government.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two people were killed and four wounded by a Russian strike on the Stolichny wholesale food market on the outskirts of the capital. The strike caused a fire, with footage from the scene showing a number of vehicles on fire following the drone attack.
Russian attacks continued throughout the night, with air raid sirens blasting across Kyiv for more than nine hours. The strikes continued into the early hours of Monday morning, with The Kyiv Independent reporting that trains were halted while passengers took cover in underground shelters. The outlet also reported a strike on a “non-residential” building, with three people injured by the attack.
Furthermore, one person was injured in the Holosiivskyi district after a strike on a two-story home. Fires were also reported in the Pecherskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts, with office buildings set ablaze, while Klitschko also warned that a gas station had caught fire in the city’s Obolonskyi district.
A Day of Strikes
The overnight attacks followed a day of bombardment on the Ukrainian capital.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian jet-powered drones attacked two kindergartens, two schools, an auto repair shop, multiple warehouses, and communications facilities across the capital on Sunday, 27th September
“Anywhere in the world, this choice of targets would be called by one word – terrorism,” Zelensky said on social media. “Russia has no military objective whatsoever in doing this – it is purely an attempt to break people and inflict as much harm as possible on our society.”
According to the Ukrainian President, dozens of people were injured across the city, with Russia using 277 drones, 155 of which were jet-powered, over a 24-hour period. The home of the Saudi Arabian ambassador was damaged in the strikes, while elsewhere in the country, a sports school was damaged in the Dnipro region, and a regional children’s home was struck in the Sumy region.
Ukraine Attacks Back
In a follow-up post on Monday morning, Zelensky said his country’s armed forces had used “sanctions” against Russian targets overnight. “Sanctions” is a euphemism for drone attacks across Russia, and has been increasingly used by the Ukrainian President in recent months.
“We are consistently using our long-range capabilities to respond to Russian strikes against life,” Zelensky said. “Last night, our sanctions were used against two defense plants in the Tula and Voronezh regions. Over the past 24 hours, SSU (Security Service of Ukraine) units also carried out effective operations against the aggressor’s oil facilities in the Krasnodar region.”
President Zelensky also said that facilities “the Russians use for drone terror against Ukraine in the Kaluga and Oryol regions” were attacked, while targets were also struck in the occupied Bryansk region and the Black Sea.
“I am grateful to everyone who is taking the war back to where it came from. Russia must stop escalating,” he added.
A Chance of Peace?
There has been a glimmer of optimism in recent weeks about a possible end to the conflict. Earlier this month, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited both Moscow and Kyiv in Washington’s first intervention in months.
There have also been discussions around a possible trilateral meeting at the G20 Summit in Miami in December. After a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced an invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with [U.S. President Donald Trump] but with other world leaders. We hope that’s an invitation he’ll accept,” Rubio said last week.
Putin is thought to be contemplating the invitation – one that would provide an opportunity for the Russian and Ukrainian leaders to meet face-to-face for the first time since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022. However, the Kremlin has previously ruled out a meeting at the G20, with spokesman Dimitri Peskov describing it as “impossible,” adding that the Russian President would be willing to meet his Ukrainian counterpart in Moscow.
About the Author: Shay Bottomley
Shay Bottomley is a British journalist. He has written for the Western Standard, Business Insider, Maidenhead Advertiser, Slough Express, Windsor Express, Berkshire Live and Southend Echo.
