Vitali Klitschko
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Russia launched overnight attack with 121 drones and Kh-31 missile on September 4; casualties reported in Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Russia struck Ukraine overnight on September 3–4 with a Kh-31 guided aircraft missile and 121 drones, about half of them jet-powered. Ukrainian air defense reported intercepting most of the incoming targets, but strikes and falling debris hit multiple locations, killing at least one person in Odesa and two police officers in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, with damage reported in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Cherkasy, and Brovary.
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Russian drone strikes SBU headquarters in central Kyiv, Zelensky orders 'mirror' response
On 4 September, a Russian drone struck the central building of the Security Service of Ukraine on Volodymyrska Street in central Kyiv, with the warhead directed at the office of acting SBU head Oleksandr Poklad, who was not present. President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly ordered Poklad to prepare an adequate, tangible, and where possible mirror response to the strike. The fire in the SBU building was extinguished, the adjacent Consistory House of the UNESCO-listed Sophia of Kyiv complex was damaged, and Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko's casualty figures rose through successive updates to nine injured, seven of them hospitalized.
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Russian drone strikes SBU headquarters in central Kyiv, damages UNESCO-protected Saint Sophia reserve
On 4 September 2026, a Russian drone struck the central building of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) on Volodymyrska Street in central Kyiv, across from the Saint Sophia Cathedral. President Zelensky said the drone was directed at the office of SBU head Oleksandr Poklad, who was not injured. The blast wave damaged the 18th-century Consistory House of the Saint Sophia of Kyiv reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and destroyed the Zavertailo restaurant opposite the SBU building. Mayor Klitschko reported nine people injured, seven of them hospitalized.
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Russian drone strikes hit Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, damaging major pharmaceutical warehouse and injuring civilians
On September 3, Russian drone strikes hit multiple locations in Kyiv city and Kyiv Oblast, setting fire to one of Ukraine's largest pharmaceutical warehouse complexes in the Boryspil district and damaging a WHO humanitarian supplies warehouse. At least nine people were injured in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old girl, and one fatality was reported by the Kyiv City Military Administration. Four people were reported injured across the region. Separately, overnight strikes hit Ukrnafta (Naftogaz Group) production facilities in Sumy region. Russian forces struck the burning warehouse site twice more during firefighting, forcing rescuers to halt work repeatedly.