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Ukrainian air defense forces shot down more than 40 jet-powered drones during the attack on Monday.

Kyiv, Kyiv

Date note: The text states 'the mayhem on Monday'. If Oct 4 is Sunday, Monday is Sept 28, 2026.

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Air defense forces managed to shoot down more than 40 jet-powered drones

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 165 Shahed-type strike drones (including 79 jet-powered ones), Gerbera-type strike drones, and Parodiya-type decoy drones from the directions of Oryol City; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai; Shatalovo; Smolensk Oblast; occupied Donetsk City; and occupied Hvardiiske, Crimea, overnight.

The Russians struck a petrol station in Kyiv's Obolonskyi district with a drone on the morning of 28 September.

Early reports indicate that a petrol station in the Obolonskyi district has been damaged in a drone strike.

The strike caused a fire at the petrol station.

Take the strike on the National Academy of Sciences [on September 28]: One of the offices of Ukrtelecom, a Ukrainian internet provider, is in the building next door.

Russian drone strike in Kyiv region kills two people and injures three others.

Around 4:00 pm. local time, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko reported that the Russian attacked on the city center killed a woman and injured 19 other people, including three children.

Russian drones struck non-residential buildings in Kyiv's Obolonskyi, Darnytskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts, according to Klitschko.

Russia also launched an overnight attack on Kyiv, injuring four people and damaging buildings across four districts.

An attack on the Academy of Sciences occurred earlier on Monday.

A Russian strike on the building of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences caused a fire; a rescue operation is under way to put out the fire and search for people inside.

The Russian Federation attacked several districts of Kyiv with jet-powered drones, hitting the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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