Russia strikes Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight September 24, killing two and injuring nine
Russia attacked Kyiv on the night of September 24 with ballistic missiles and drones, killing two people — a 57-year-old woman in Podilskyi and a 65-year-old man in Solomianskyi — and injuring at least nine, more than half of whom were hospitalized. Kyiv City Maternity Hospital No. 2 on Mostytska Street was damaged, but patients and staff sheltered safely and a baby boy was born at 2:05 during the strike. A separate daytime drone hit on a garage cooperative in Obolonskyi injured one person and destroyed at least 16 garage boxes.
Key points
- Overnight attack on September 24 used ballistic missiles and drones across multiple Kyiv districts.
- Two killed: a 57-year-old woman in Podilskyi and a 65-year-old man in Solomianskyi.
- Injuries rose to nine, with more than half hospitalized; two were initially in serious condition and later stabilized.
- Kyiv City Maternity Hospital No. 2 on Mostytska Street was damaged; patients and staff were in a shelter, and no one there was injured.
- A baby boy was born at the maternity hospital at 2:05 during the attack; the hospital continued operating despite the damage.
- A daytime drone strike hit a garage cooperative in Obolonskyi, destroying at least 16 garage boxes and injuring one person.
- Officials reported roughly 90 objects damaged citywide, including about 50 vehicles; no critical infrastructure damage was recorded.
Why it matters
The strike combined ballistic missiles and drones against the Ukrainian capital in a multi-vector pattern, hitting civilian infrastructure across at least five districts. A maternity hospital was struck during an active birth, a garage cooperative was destroyed in Obolonskyi, and officials recorded roughly 90 damaged objects including about 50 vehicles. The toll illustrates both the breadth of destruction and the recurring targeting of facilities — medical, educational, residential and commercial — that serve Kyiv's civilian population.
What happened
In the night of September 24, Russia struck Kyiv with ballistic missiles and drones, affecting the Podilskyi, Solomianskyi, Obolonskyi, Pecherskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts. Two people were killed: a 57-year-old woman in Podilskyi and a 65-year-old man in Solomianskyi. The injured count rose from an initial figure of eight to nine, with more than half hospitalized; two were initially in serious condition and later stabilized. Kyiv City Maternity Hospital No. 2 on Mostytska Street was damaged — windows and doors on floors 1 through 5 on the parking side, plus windows in the laundry and boiler room — but patients and staff were in the building's shelter and no one there was injured. A baby boy was born at 2:05 during the attack, and the hospital continued to operate and provide care. During the day on September 24, drone debris struck a garage cooperative in Obolonskyi, destroying at least 16 garage boxes and setting cars on fire; rescue services extinguished the blaze and one person was injured. Officials reported roughly 90 damaged objects citywide, including about 50 vehicles, and said no critical infrastructure had been hit.
Where reporting differs
Reports diverge on the timeline and number of fatalities and injuries. Earlier reporting attributed two deaths to the night of September 24 (the 57-year-old woman in Podilskyi and the 65-year-old man in Solomianskyi), while later reporting describes a 14-year-old boy killed by a drone strike on a 16-storey residential building in Pecherskyi on the morning of September 25. Casualty counts also evolved: initial figures cited eight injured, while later Kyiv City Military Administration and Mayor Klitschko updates raised the figure to nine, with eight hospitalized and seven of the injured in Pecherskyi.
Background
Kyiv City Maternity Hospital No. 2 on Mostytska Street continued to operate and provide medical care despite partial damage to windows and doors on floors 1–5 and in the laundry and boiler room. Ukrainian officials explicitly stated that no critical infrastructure in Kyiv was damaged in the attack. Separately, the Israeli government condemned the strike that killed the 14-year-old boy, who held Israeli citizenship, situating the incident in the bilateral Ukraine–Israel diplomatic context.