Russian drone smashes into Kyiv school, no injuries, officials say
More than 100 students sheltered safely as firefighters extinguished the blaze and officials reported no injuries.
- Russian air strikes injured one person in Kyiv and another in Odesa on Thursday, October 1, as Moscow launched a series of drone and missile attacks across Ukraine.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky described the strikes as a "new escalation of terror" after Russian jet-powered drone launches surged in September, with 3,177 launched through the 29th, straining Ukraine's air defenses.
- A Russian drone struck a school in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district on Thursday, while strikes also hit the Pivdennyi Bridge and the grounds of the Institute for Nuclear Research, according to local authorities.
- Metro and surface traffic across the Pivdennyi Bridge were suspended following the strikes; Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed children and teachers sheltering inside the school remained unharmed.
- Presidential defense technology adviser Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov warned Russia deployed new jet-powered drones with warheads designed to sever high-voltage power lines, signaling an escalating winter threat to Ukraine's energy grid.
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The FP-7 is designed to reach targets 250 kilometres away.
"First combat operation, the Ukrainian president writes under a video. Where or against which target the rocket was deployed, he does not report.
Ukraine used a domestically developed ballistic missile, the FP-7, on the front lines for the first time on Thursday. The Ukrainian President confirmed this…
Zelenskyy says Ukraine moves towards mass production after first combat use of FP-7
Ukraine Just Got Handed a New Threat From Russia: A Jet-Powered Drone Carrying a Warhead Built to Cut Through Power Pylons
Russia has used a special shaped-charge cutting warhead on a jet-powered drone for the first time, according to a defense technology adviser to Zelenskyy, who said the payload was built to damage high-voltage pylons and steel bridges. Ukraine is also struggling to catch the new jet drones, which fly higher and faster than older models.
Two Russian drones struck a major Kyiv bridge across the Dnieper River on Thursday, connecting the east and west of the city.
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