Russian strikes killed eight people across Ukraine on September 27 and early September 28, 2026.

Casualties

  • Sumy: three killed, including a 16-year-old girl, when strikes damaged a children’s centre, Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi said.
  • Zaporizhzhia region: three killed.
  • Odesa region: one killed in a “massive strike” that damaged homes, a hotel, a medical building and a grain warehouse.
  • Kyiv: one man killed; Mayor Vitali Klitschko said three people were hospitalised.
  • Kharkiv: at least 22 injured, including six children, when a guided bomb destroyed two floors of an apartment block, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

3,900 weapons in a week

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched more than 2,200 attack drones, 1,630 aerial bombs and 38 missiles over the past week. He said “this wave of Shahed terror would not be happening” if Russia were serious about de-escalation.

Lavrov at the UN

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN General Assembly that Moscow would continue its campaign “to the end.” Russia’s Defence Ministry said it bombed data centres of Kyivstar and Omega Telecom in Kyiv.

Ukrainian strike

Ukrainian drones hit the Pavlovskaya oil depot in Russia’s Krasnodar region.

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