Russian drones kill two in market outside Kyiv, officials say

Russian drones struck a market in Sofiivska Borshchahivka on the western outskirts of Kyiv on 27 September 2026, killing two people and injuring three, the head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko, said on Telegram. Ukrainian prosecutors said about 10 people were injured in the same strike. In Kyiv itself, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said nine people were injured during the day, including a child, with six receiving hospital treatment.hindustantimes.com+1

The market strike matters because it hit a civilian trading site on the capital's edge during a wave of attacks that Ukrainian prosecutors and officials say targeted residential buildings, a kindergarten area, a playground and communications infrastructure. Kyiv has faced intensive attacks, mostly at night, and in recent weeks Russian forces have launched strikes almost continuously throughout the day, according to officials cited in the reporting. Casualty totals across the capital and region have climbed since the attacks began.

Why the market strike matters

Ukrainian prosecutors said the drone attack hit the market in Sofiiska Borshchahivka, killing two people and injuring about 10. Pictures posted online showed installations and vehicles on fire, with debris strewn on the ground. In the Bucha District, Tkachenko reported two killed and three injured when an enemy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — a drone — struck, and said the injured were receiving medical care with doctors and emergency services on the scene.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the targets in Kyiv had included a building used as a residence by the Saudi Arabian ambassador. He said Russia had deployed 277 attack drones of various types since Saturday, 155 of them the jet-powered variety Moscow has recently used more readily because they fly higher and are difficult to intercept. Zelenskiy said the civilian targets made the acts unquestionably terrorism, adding that Russia had no military objective in doing so.kyivpost.com

The casualty figures come from named officials and agencies. Klitschko said nine people were injured in Kyiv during the day, including a child, with six hospitalised. In the Bucha District, Tkachenko's Telegram post recorded two killed and three injured. In Shchaslyve, Boryspil District, a passenger car was damaged, and in the Bila Tserkva district a grain silo and a high-rise building were damaged, Ukrinform reported.

Where the casualty figures came from

Beyond the capital region, three glide bombs struck near a family support centre in the northern city of Sumy, killing two people, regional governor Oleh Hryhorov wrote on Telegram. In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, a drone struck a car and killed the driver, prosecutors said. Separately, a drone crashed onto a road in Vyshneve, Bucha district, killing one person and injuring three others, with five vehicles damaged.

In Kyiv, Klitschko said a drone struck a high-rise apartment building in an eastern suburb, wounding one person and starting a fire that emergency crews extinguished. He later said a drone hit another high-rise in a central district. Drones had earlier hit areas near a kindergarten and a playground in two districts. A drone also struck a data centre in the Shevchenkivskyi district, Klitschko said around 9 a.m. local time.

Ukraine's largest mobile service provider told the Interfax Ukraine news agency that Russian forces had hit its headquarters in continued strikes on Ukrainian data centres and communications infrastructure, with no casualties. Russia's defence ministry issued statements saying its forces had struck two data centres in Kyiv, a logistics hub in Odesa, and two cargo vessels headed for Odesa. Both sides in the war, now more than four and a half years old, deny targeting civilians.

What Russia says it hit

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned the wider wave of strikes, saying on X that there was a clear pattern of civilian sites — places where people live, study, work and bring their children — and that Russian attacks had not stopped for the past 24 hours. On 25 September alone, Russian strikes killed at least four people and injured 47 in Kyiv, according to the Kyiv Post.

Zelenskiy urged non-Western allies to take a sharper stance on Russia after Sunday's data centre strike. The reporting does not give a scheduled date for the next diplomatic or military step; the attacks themselves continued through 27 September 2026, with officials still counting casualties in Kyiv, the Kyiv region, Sumy and Kharkiv.