At least 2 killed, 8 injured in Kyiv as Russia drones, missile strike market, gas station in hours-long attacks
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On the evening 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 shows 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.
According to a Kyiv Independent journalist, authorities also halted trains set to depart during the attack, evacuating passengers to underground shelters.
Later in the overnight hours of Sept. 28, amid a newly issued air raid alerts, drones reportedly had damaged an unspecified "non-residential building" in the Podil district of Kyiv. Eyewitness reports by a Kyiv Independent reporter detail a Russian drone striking a building in the neighbourhood.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service said that three people injured were injured in the area, while another person was injured in the Holosiivskyi district after a drone struck a two-story home.
Additional fires were reported throughout the city amid the attack including office buildings in the Pecherskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.
Klitschko also reported that a gas station had been set ablaze in the Obolonskyi district of the city.
The attack comes amid a day of devastation in Kyiv with multiple hours-long attacks reported across the capital. 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.
Unrelenting attacks on the capital occurred immediately prior on the night of Sept. 26-27, when Russian strikes on Kyiv killed one and injured at least five.
Across Ukraine on Sept. 26-27, attacks by Russian forces further killed 14 and injured at least 57.
"This past week, the Russians launched more than 2,200 attack drones against Ukraine, as well as around 1,650 aerial bombs and 38 missiles of various types, a significant number of them ballistic missiles," said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
