At least four people, including a child, killed in the Russian attack on Kyiv (updated)
A “massive attack” by Russia against Ukraine’s capital killed at least four people, including a 12-year-old girl, and injured at least 27 others on September 28, 2025, Ukrainian authorities reported.
A residential area of Kyiv hit by the Russian barrage“We are working at eight locations in Kyiv. Four people have been killed. Among them is a 12-year-old girl crushed by a concrete slab. A nurse and a patient have been killed at the Institute of Cardiology. Another person has been found dead at the scene of the strike on civilian infrastructure,” Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said as of 11:45.
Hromadske reported that the 12-year-old girl, Oleksandra Polishchuk, who was killed, was home with her mother during the attack. The mother is currently hospitalized with severe injuries, and neighbors report her condition is serious.
The girl’s classmates are leaving candles, flowers, and toys outside her home as tributes.
“It just hit their apartment,” Lyudmyla, a neighbor of the family, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. “Such a cheerful child — she was involved in sports, studied English. So active. She had been abroad, in Canada. They came back for school. Such a wonderful child. It’s just a shock.”
The girl was a seventh-grade student at Specialized School No. 159 confirmed.
Oleksandra Polishchuk/ Photo provided by the Specialized School No. 159According to the Kyiv City Military Administration, in the Sviatoshynskyi District, drone debris fell onto a two-story nonresidential building, injuring one person.
EU Ambassador Katarína Mathernová reported that the European Union Delegation in Ukraine sustained damage overnight. The Russian attack damaged vehicles in the EU Delegation’s parking area.
“One of the explosions also damaged cars in the EU Delegation parking lot. All of my colleagues are safe and we continue our work. Kyiv stands – and the European Union stands with it. This night is yet another reminder that Russia deliberately targets civilians and seeks to terrorize them. It will not succeed. Ukraine has the right to live in peace and security. The EU will continue supporting Ukraine’s righteous war effort, providing humanitarian aid, and helping rebuild what was destroyed,” Mathernová stated.
Polish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Paweł Wroński, in a comment to RMF FM, stated that a missile element or a small-caliber missile” struck the roof of the consular section of the Polish Embassy in Kyiv and pierced the ceiling, “ending up in the kitchen.” No one was injured.
The spokesperson for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that officials had already conducted an initial damage assessment, and the damage is “not significant.”
The incident will not affect the embassy’s operations, and the consular section in Kyiv will work as usual on Monday.
In the Solomianskyi District, a five-story building was partially destroyed by the attack, which resulted in a fire and left one person wounded. Damage to a nonresidential building and debris falling onto a private residence were also recorded in the area.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reportedі that in the Solomyanskyi District, the Institute of Cardiology and residential buildings were damaged as a result of the Russian attack. Two people were killed there.
Aftermath of the Russian attack on KyivMoreover, in the Darnytskyi District, wreckage struck parked cars and the roadway. In the Holosiivskyi District, drone fragments landed in two private sector locations, with no preliminary casualties reported. In the Darnytskyi District, the Russians damaged a children’s educational institution.
Drone fragments also landed on parked cars in the Dniprovskyi District.
According to Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Oblast State Administration, five people were injured in the Fastiv District of the Kyiv region.
All of the victims are employees of a bread factory. They are receiving all necessary medical assistance on site. The fire that broke out on the premises has already been extinguished.
The consequences of the Russian strike were also recorded in the city of Bila Tserkva, where a fire broke out on the roof of a nine-story residential building. Six cars were also damaged in the city. Two women, aged 56 and 47, reportedly suffered acute stress reactions. They were provided with medical assistance on the spot.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration reported that 42 residents had sought medical help in Zaporizhzhia. The strike damaged 41 apartment buildings, 22 houses, and several non-residential buildings in this city. Officials disconnected three multi-story buildings affected by the missile strike from utilities.
According to Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy Oblast Military Administration, three women were injured in Russian drone strikes in Sumy Oblast. Medics took a 62-year-old woman to a hospital in the Seredyna-Buda hromada. Later, another drone attack injured two other oblast residents, aged 51 and 84. They sought medical help on their own. Doctors provided the injured women with necessary care. They are currently receiving outpatient treatment.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X that the large-scale attack on Ukraine lasted more than 12 hours. The aggressor state fired nearly 500 attack drones and over 40 missiles, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.
Zelenskyy said the main targets of the Russian attack were Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, as well as Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, and Odesa Oblasts (regions).
The President reported that the attack killed four people in Kyiv and injured at least 40 people across Ukraine, including children.
Zelenskyy pointed out that “this vile attack came virtually as the close of UN General Assembly week, and this is exactly how Russia declares its true position”.
“Moscow wants to keep fighting and killing, and it deserves the toughest pressure from the world. The Kremlin benefits from continuing this war and terror as long as it earns revenue from energy and operates a shadow fleet. We will continue to strike back to deprive Russia of those revenue streams and to compel it towards diplomacy. Everyone who wants peace must back President Trump’s efforts and halt any Russian imports. The time for decisive action is long overdue, and we count on a strong response from the United States, Europe, the G7, and the G20,” he stated.
On September 27, the President of Ukraine warned that Russia would not stop with his country, which is why it was testing European air defenses with the recent incursions in several countries belonging to the Nato military alliance.
In a recent speech delivered at the UN General Assembly, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country had no intention of attacking EU or Nato member states but warned of a “decisive response” to any “aggression” directed towards Moscow.
Some EU countries have accused Russia of violating their airspace with warplanes.
Later, Zelenskyy, citing intelligence data in his video address, stated that Russian military is using tankers to launch and control drones in European countries.
“It is especially important that sanctions hit painfully at Russia’s energy trade and the entire infrastructure of Russia’s tanker fleet. Moreover, intelligence now indicates that Russia is using tankers to launch and operate drones against European countries. This is yet more evidence why the Baltic Sea and other seas must be closed to Russian tankers – at least to the shadow fleet,” the President of Ukraine said.
He also stressed that Ukraine is counting on “strong steps from the United States.”
“We discussed with President Trump what could truly push Russia to change its position and stop the war. The world has tools that can work in a genuinely peace-making way,” he added.
Ukraine urges the international community to unite to restore global security under the UN Charter and strengthen sanctions against Russia to enforce compliance with international law. Following Russia’s initial invasion in 2014, Ukraine has pursued the liberation of its territories within its internationally recognized 1991 borders while developing comprehensive reintegration strategies and policies for all liberated areas.
Previously, Bohdan Bernatskyy, a member of the Sanctions Policy Working Group of the Crimean Platform Expert Network, revealed at the Third Parliamentary Summit in Latvia that over 1,300 Russian military companies and 2 million industrial workers continue to operate, many without international restrictions.
Earlier, BBC’s Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko pointed out that Russia has continued to make billions from fossil fuel exports to the West, data shows, helping to finance its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now in its fourth year.
Since the start of that invasion in February 2022, Russia has made more than three times as much money by exporting hydrocarbons as Ukraine has received in aid allocated by its allies.
Despite the sanctions imposed on Russia, as of September 28, 2025, Russia had made more than €951bn in revenue from fossil fuel exports since the start of the full-scale invasion, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
