Russian Drone Barrage Kills 7 in Kyiv, Including 14-Year-Old Boy; 59 Injured

Russia launched sustained drone attacks on Kyiv from roughly 4:50 a.m. into the afternoon of September 25, triggering seven separate air raid alerts. A drone struck a 16-story residential building in the central Pecherskyi district between the 10th and 11th floors, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring seven people. Further strikes hit a five-story non-residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district (fire covering roughly 300 sq m, eight injured, the High Council of Justice building damaged), an office building and a medical facility in the Solomianskyi district, and a McDonald's warehouse in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast. By 8 p.m. local time the citywide toll stood at 7 killed (including two children) and 59 injured, with 25 people hospitalized. Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed the hospitalization figures; Zelensky said 'the Russians are constantly expanding their escalation operation' against civilian infrastructure and businesses. Nationwide, Russia launched 295 attack drones overnight, of which Ukrainian forces shot down or suppressed 267.