Russian Drone and Glide Bomb Barrage Hits Kyiv, Sumy, Kherson, Kharkiv Regions, Kills 5

Russian forces struck Kyiv, Sumy, Kherson, and Kharkiv regions through the day on August 28, killing 5 people and injuring at least 33. In Kyiv region, 1 person was killed and 2 injured in early morning attacks that damaged 14 warehouses, 16 private houses, 3 apartment buildings, and 16 vehicles, and destroyed a Nova Poshta postal sorting center with 4 glide bombs. In Sumy region, a drone strike using a 'double tap' tactic — a second drone hitting the same site after emergency crews arrived — killed a 61-year-old man and wounded 7 (4 hospitalized). In Kherson region, strikes killed 1 person and injured 11 (including 1 child); Russia has dropped roughly 170 guided glide bombs on the region since July 1 as part of what officials described as a campaign to 'weaponize winter' by targeting the power grid — regional head Oleksandr Prokudin warned Kherson could be without electricity 'not for hours or days, but for a long time.' In Kharkiv region, 2 people (ages 26 and 38) were killed and 13 injured, including 2 children. Ukrainian government official Andrii Kovalenko said the goal of the dispersed strikes was 'to exhaust air defenses and the population.'