The Kyiv Independent Live in London: 
Breaking: Multiple fires across Kyiv, city center struck as all-day Russian drone attacks continue
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Russian drones have struck central Kyiv in the middle of the day on Sept. 28 as Moscow's round-the-clock bombardment of the Ukrainian capital continues.
Around midday, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko reported Russian drones hitting non-residential buildings in Kyiv's Obolonskyi, Darnytskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts.
In the city center, the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences building was set ablaze.
The building is located in close proximity to important city landmarks, including the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian National University, the capital's main opera and ballet theater, and the German embassy.
According to Klitschko, one woman was killed and three injured in the attack on the city center.
Videos posted to social media showed people clinging to the outside of windows as smoke poured from the building.
"A rescue operation is currently underway... and a search is being conducted for people who might have been inside the building," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on social media.
"Russia will definitely face a response to this. And every one of Ukraine’s partners must see from this terror, from these strikes, that supporting Ukraine means truly supporting people’s lives – supporting the principle that terror must never be normalized, anywhere. Russia must be held accountable for all of this and face real consequences," he added.
Smoke was seen rising from numerous locations across the city center by Kyiv Independent reporters in the capital.
The strikes are just the latest in a weeks-long, round-the-clock Russian aerial campaign against Kyiv.
In the commuter city of Brovary east of Kyiv, a Russian strike on a warehouse led to a "minor" ammonia leak, regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said.
On the evening of Sept. 27, two people were killed and four others injured by a Russian strike on the Stolichny food market just outside of the capital, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. The strike caused a fire at the wholesale food market.
Eyewitness footage from the scene of the strike on the market showed flames engulfing vehicles in the parking lot.
Over central Kyiv, air defense systems were reported to be active, filling the city with sounds of blasts and explosions amid a nine-hour-long air raid alert.
An additional nine people sustained injuries in attacks on Kyiv throughout the day, said Klitschko. Six of the injured victims were hospitalized, including one child.
