Key facts
- Russian drones struck a school in Kyiv on Thursday morning.
- No students were injured as they were in a shelter.
- A bridge over the Dnipro River was also hit.
- The bridge over the Dnipro River did not suffer major damage.
Russian drones struck a school in Kyiv and set it ablaze on Thursday morning, with no reported injuries as pupils were in a shelter. A bridge over the Dnipro River was also hit, but Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated it did not suffer major damage.
In a separate incident on Monday, Russian jet drones struck downtown Kyiv, setting fire to the historic headquarters of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences. Some staff escaped by climbing out of the academy's windows and down firefighters' ladders. A woman was killed in the strike on the academy, according to the Kyiv city military administration. The academy's press service identified her as an aide to Volodymyr Horbulin, a former secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council. Horbulin, 86, now a vice president of the academy, was at work when the drone hit and suffered a minor injury, according to BBC News Ukraine. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Monday's attacks on the capital injured 19 people, including three children.
Another drone set fire to the Dobrobut medical center, near Ukraine's Constitutional Court. Air raid sirens had sounded over Kyiv almost without a break since early morning. Ukraine's Air Force said 86 of the 124 drones Russia launched between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. were jet-powered. Air defenses brought down 86 drones in all, but only 49 of them were jets. The strikes reached well beyond the capital. Russia's round-the-clock bombardment killed at least seven people across Ukraine and wounded more than 80, officials said. In Dnipro, a drone hit an office center during working hours, killing three people and wounding at least 18. In Kharkiv, a strike on a nine-story apartment building wounded 43 people, including 11 children.