Child killed in Russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv

A Russian missile and drone strike killed a child and injured three other people in Kyiv overnight, The Guardian reported on Sept. 30. The outlet said the attack hit a residential area of the Ukrainian capital.²

Damage in the capital

The Kyiv attack damaged infrastructure facilities, houses, warehouses and cars, according to The Guardian. The outlet also reported that several people were killed or injured in strikes on the residential area, although the broader casualty claim was not independently confirmed in the dossier.²

In a separate Oct. 4 report, The Kyiv Independent said a Russian attack in Kyiv damaged a 25-storey apartment building, leaving one person dead and two injured. That account came amid reports of attacks in several Ukrainian regions.¹

Attacks around the Kyiv region

The Kyiv Independent said on Oct. 3 that a Russian drone attack in Hostomel, Kyiv Oblast, hit warehouse sites and was reported to have wounded four people, one of them a child. Two men and a woman suffered multiple injuries, while an eight-year-old girl sustained a shrapnel wound to a lower limb. At least one person was taken to hospital.¹

The Hostomel attack reportedly set a warehouse and several production facilities on fire. The Kyiv Independent said a warehouse belonging to Venta LTD, which it described as Ukraine’s third-largest pharmaceutical distributor, was reportedly among the sites hit. The outlet said it could not immediately verify the reports, and company officials had not commented.¹

Strikes across Ukraine

Russian attacks reported on Oct. 4 killed at least five people and injured 30 across Ukraine, according to The Kyiv Independent. The outlet reported at least three deaths and 16 injuries in Sumy Oblast, including a 52-year-old employee killed in a drone strike on a medical-supplies warehouse. Three other people were injured there, while glide-bomb attacks on Sumy and its surrounding area injured 13 people, including a child.¹

The same report said two people were killed and five injured in Kharkiv Oblast. Three people were injured in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, including two when food warehouses in Pavlohrad were struck and caught fire, while two others were injured in the Zaporizhzhia district.¹

Kyiv’s bridges targeted

The Kyiv Independent reported that a Russian drone struck Kyiv’s Southern Bridge over the Dnipro River on Oct. 3. The outlet said this was the bridge's fourth reported drone hit over a two-day period. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Shahed drones had hit the bridge several times and that a residential high-rise was struck in the morning.¹

On Oct. 4, a Russian drone struck the roadway of Kyiv’s Northern Bridge, according to The Kyiv Independent. The outlet said Russian forces had targeted bridges across the Dnipro in Kyiv for a fourth consecutive day. No casualties had been reported from an earlier strike on the Northern Bridge.¹