Russian drone smashes into Kyiv school, no injuries, officials say
Children and staff sheltered in the school basement as emergency crews extinguished a fire and officials reported no casualties.
- On September 30, Russia launched its heaviest combined overnight strike on Ukraine's energy grid in months, hitting 11 regions with nearly 190 drones and missiles and killing seven people, including a child.
- Moscow's renewed fall-winter campaign aims to systematically dismantle Ukraine's transmission grid, following patterns from previous seasons as temperatures drop toward freezing and the country enters winter vulnerable to prolonged outages.
- Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov reported Russia used a jet-powered drone carrying a specialized 40-kilogram cumulative-cutting warhead designed to destroy high-voltage pylons; strikes in Odesa damaged a business center, injuring one person.
- Emergency power outages were introduced across Kyiv and surrounding regions as Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi ordered local authorities to accelerate backup power checks and generator connections at critical facilities 'as soon as possible.'
- Ukraine has yet to secure funding for its 5.4 billion euro energy resilience plan, leaving the system exposed as the country faces another winter with insufficient interceptor stocks and incomplete protection measures.
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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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