Kyiv Hit for Seventh Day, Hospital and University Ablaze
For the seventh day in a row, Russia struck Kyiv with drones: a hospital was hit, a fire broke out near a university building, and the number of wounded rose from four to seven.
Russian drones struck Kyiv on September 2 for the seventh day running, this time hitting a healthcare facility in the Shevchenkivskyi district while a fire broke out on the grounds of an educational institution in the Holosiivskyi district. For six days straight, the Ukrainian capital had been an almost constant target of drones and missiles, and Tuesday’s strike, the sixth day of that run, killed twelve people across the region.
Wounded Toll Rises From Four To Seven
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, gave the first casualty figures on Telegram during the day. He initially reported that four people had been wounded in the strike on the capital, two of them hospitalized and the rest treated on an outpatient basis. Later the same day he revised the number of wounded upward to seven, noting that five of them remained under hospital care.
“The number of people wounded in the attack has risen to seven, five of them hospitalized,” Klitschko wrote. According to the figures released, two doctors are among the wounded and have been hospitalized.
In the Shevchenkivskyi district, a drone hit a six-story residential building, which was partially destroyed. A healthcare facility in the same district was also damaged: its windows were shattered, though initial reports indicate no casualties among either patients or staff. At least three loud explosions were heard in the city center, and a column of black smoke rose over a neighborhood near the National University building.
Some Sources Report Different Numbers
Some Ukrainian sources are giving a different account of the same attack: according to those reports, nine people were wounded, three districts were hit, and the damaged sites include, besides the hospital, a university building, residential houses and a kindergarten. The mayor’s official statements make no mention of that number of districts or of a kindergarten, so the exact scale of the damage from the morning attack remains to be confirmed.
Odesa Region Left Without Power
While Kyiv marked its seventh day under attack, Russia also carried out a massive missile and drone strike on energy infrastructure in the Odesa region. Grid operator Ukrenergo confirmed the attack, and Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said a large share of the region’s population had been left without electricity, with additional outages reported in four more regions.
Serhii Lysak, head of the Odesa city military administration, said eight people were wounded in the strike, including one child. A 24-story residential building was damaged, with apartments destroyed across several floors, and commercial buildings and two educational institutions in the city were also hit.
In Mykolaiv, a morning drone strike damaged seven private houses and three cars.
In the Kyiv region, outside the capital itself, governor Tymur Tkachenko said two people were wounded and that warehouses and private property had been damaged.
Putin Announces New Strikes On Energy Grid
Ahead of this latest wave of attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian forces were preparing new strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. “Our forces are preparing to carry out massive strikes on the energy infrastructure,” Putin said.
For the past week, Moscow has been relying on swarms of drones, including fast jet-powered models, combined with missile strikes on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine. The seventh consecutive day of near-constant attacks on the capital shows that pace has held, while Ukrainian authorities continue to tally the damage both in Kyiv and in the south of the country, where the Odesa region was left partly without power.
