Russian strikes kill at least seven across Ukraine

Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80, Ukrainian officials said Monday, September 28, as attacks damaged residential buildings, offices and other sites. The reported deaths included a woman killed at Kyiv’s National Academy of Sciences building and three people killed at an office center in Dnipro. Casualty figures vary across accounts and cover attacks at different times, so they do not establish a single final toll. Kyiv city officials said a strike hit the academy in the Shevchenkivskyi district, killing a woman. Staff escaped the burning building with firefighters’ help. Ukrainian officials also reported damage at other sites in the capital. Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces struck two data centers in Kyiv; Ukrainian officials and other accounts described damage to civilian buildings and infrastructure. The supplied reports do not independently establish the intended target of each strike. In Dnipro, local authorities said an attack on an office center killed three people. Injury reports from the incident differed, with one account giving at least 12 and another at least 18.