Eight people were killed in Russian strikes targeting several areas of Ukraine on Sunday, 27 September 2026, including the capital Kyiv and the cities of Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, as Ukrainian authorities reported damage to residential buildings, civilian facilities and warehouses.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ivan Vihivskyi announced the toll on Sunday afternoon, saying Russian strikes hit a children’s centre in the northern city of Sumy, killing three people, including a 16-year-old girl. Sumy regional governor Oleh Hryhorov had initially said that three glide bombs had fallen near a family support centre, killing two people.
Death toll in Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv
The area is frequently attacked because of its proximity to the Russian border, while Moscow says it is seeking to establish a buffer zone along the border region. In Zaporizhzhia, in south-eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said three people were killed in overnight strikes.
Prosecutors also said that a drone hit a car in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, killing its driver. In the capital Kyiv, authorities reported that a man was killed in a Russian drone strike, while Mayor Vitali Klitschko said three people were injured and taken to hospital for treatment.
Klitschko said a drone hit a multi-storey residential building in Kyiv’s eastern Darnytskyi district, sparking a fire that emergency crews managed to extinguish. Sites near a nursery and a sports ground in two other districts were also hit, and damage was reported in additional parts of the capital.
Extensive damage in Kyiv and Odesa
Local authorities said 16 sites in and around Kyiv were damaged, including 12 homes, as well as a warehouse and a production facility. An auto repair workshop and dozens of vehicles were also damaged, along with administrative buildings, a school and a petrol station, according to a separate damage toll released by Ukrainian authorities. In the southern Odesa region, authorities said one person was killed in a strike they described as large-scale.
He added that the strikes hit homes and civilian infrastructure in various parts of the country. The Russian Defence Ministry, for its part, said its forces had carried out drone strikes on logistics centres, port and transport infrastructure, communications centres and vessels that it said were linked to the Ukrainian military.
It added that the attacks hit a data centre in Kyiv, logistics centres in the Kyiv and Odesa regions, two drone warehouses in Mykolaiv, military facilities and the port of Kiliia. The Russian ministry later announced another series of strikes during the day, saying they hit two data centres in Kyiv, a logistics centre in Odesa and a cargo ship bound for the coastal city.
Moscow justifies strikes and announces targets
Moscow provided no independent evidence confirming the nature of the sites it said had been targeted. The attacks came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the United Nations General Assembly that Moscow intended to continue its military campaign to the end.
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday that its forces had taken control of a border village in the Kharkiv region, without independent Ukrainian confirmation of the announcement. Russia has not announced the annexation of the Kharkiv region, unlike Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, but has controlled territory there since the full-scale war began in 2022.
The Kremlin has also repeatedly declared its intention to seize the remaining parts of eastern Ukraine, while US-led talks to end the war have made no publicly announced breakthrough.
