Russia strikes Kyiv with jet-powered drones for third straight night

Russia attacked Kyiv with drones, including jet-powered ones, for a third straight night into September 27; one man was killed in Solomianskyi and four people were injured in a morning strike, while Russia said it hit a data centre.

RuskiGazeta Editorial DeskSeptember 27, 2026, 11:50 AMUpdated: September 27, 2026, 06:28 PM

Russia strikes Kyiv with jet-powered drones for third straight night

Russia attacked Kyiv for a third consecutive night into September 27. Ukraine’s Air Force said 170 Shahed-type drones, including 76 jet-powered ones, were launched overnight along with decoy drones; 147 were shot down or suppressed, with hits recorded at 18 locations. Russian media said jet-powered Geran-4 and Geran-5 drones were used.

In Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district, a warehouse and a car service centre caught fire overnight and a blast wave damaged a five-storey building; one man was killed and a woman injured. A morning strike on a non-residential building in Shevchenkivskyi district injured four people, including two 16-year-old girls. A school in Solomianskyi was also damaged.

A school damaged in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district after the morning attack on September 27

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it struck a Vodafone data processing centre in Kyiv, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a data centre was hit twice in the morning. Reuters reported that the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, was also hit, with no casualties, leaving about 100,000 subscribers without service.

In Vyshneve in the Kyiv region, one person was killed and three were injured. Attacks continued during the day on September 27, hitting an administrative building in Holosiivskyi and a nine-storey residential building in Darnytskyi.