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The start of the academic year in Ukraine turned into a week of exhausting and brutal attacks. The most extensive shelling struck Kyiv, Odesa, and frontline communities in Donetsk Region. This week, targets in the capital included a railway depot, a higher education institution, and an SBU building, with UNESCO World Heritage sites also sustaining damage. The strikes claimed the lives of emergency and municipal workers, as well as metallurgy sector employees: a DSNS firefighter, two police officers, a municipal worker, six railway workers, and five metallurgists. DSNS units and Air Defense Forces worked non-stop amid heavy smoke and under the constant threat of repeated strikes.
Chronicle of Russian Shelling from August 31 to September 6, 2026
In Sumy on August 31, enemy UAVs attacked a residential sector and trucks, resulting in strikes, fires, and four injured civilians. In Chernihiv Region, private enterprises and an energy facility were damaged. In Zolochiv, Kharkiv Region, two children suffered acute stress reactions following a strike on a car. In Dnipropetrovsk Region, the enemy targeted enterprises in Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad District, leaving nine injured across the region, including a child. In Zaporizhzhia Region, two people were killed and three wounded over the past day, while daytime airstrikes and FPV drone attacks injured six more people, including a teenager; a fire and rescue station, a store, and transport vehicles were damaged. In Kherson Region and the regional center, drone attacks killed three civilians and damaged an apartment in a high-rise building and a municipal trolleybus. In Mykolaiv Region, a warehouse was damaged and a man was injured.
In Dnipropetrovsk Region on September 1, five people were injured, with one man in critical condition; in Dnipro, a processing industry enterprise, a school stadium, and private homes were damaged, and two women were hospitalized. In Zaporizhzhia Region, enemy attacks killed two people and injured eight others; during the day, Russian forces attacked a civilian car, a DSNS vehicle, a volunteer evacuation vehicle, and a truck, killing two more people and injuring seven, including four firefighters. In Kherson, enemy drones took the lives of two civilians, including 43-year-old fitter Dmytro Spychak of the emergency restoration crew at the "Korabel" water supply and sewerage services; two children were also injured in the city, and commercial premises and an apartment in a high-rise caught fire. Optical-guided FPV drones and jet-powered UAVs attacked a residential sector and a civilian enterprise in Sumy, triggering a fire at the enterprise. In Chernihiv Region, an enterprise, residential housing, and civilian infrastructure were damaged. In Poltava, a fire broke out on the grounds of a facility, injuring four people. In Zhytomyr Region, fires erupted at an industrial enterprise and a warehouse.
In Sumy, overnight on September 2, a large-scale fire broke out in a non-residential building following a strike on an industrial zone; across the region, one person was killed and seven were injured. In Kharkiv Region, four civilians were injured, and administrative buildings, community centers, educational institutions, private homes, railway infrastructure, and civilian vehicles and trucks were damaged, causing power outages. In Zaporizhzhia Region, two people were killed and eleven others sustained injuries of varying severity over the past day, with vehicles catching fire in the regional center. In Kherson Region, a woman was killed, while in Kherson a high-rise building was damaged, and occupiers targeted a DSNS unit and a police building, destroying and damaging service equipment and firefighter gear. In Mykolaiv, 15 private homes and cars were damaged. In Dnipro, the enemy damaged educational institutions, residential buildings, a food warehouse, and vehicles, triggering fires; two people were killed and nine injured, three of them critically, with two additional fatalities and one critical injury reported in the region. An enemy UAV struck near train No. 53/54 Odesa–Dnipro at a station on the Prydniprovska Railway; thanks to a timely evacuation, passengers and railway workers were unharmed, though the main impact hit the locomotive. In Poltava Region, Russian forces struck an industrial facility and warehouses, causing a fire. In Vinnytsia and Rivne Regions, drone attacks destroyed and damaged residential buildings, injuring six people.
In Khmelnytskyi Region, during overnight UAV attacks on September 3, damage and fires occurred on the grounds of two enterprises, and one person was hospitalized. In Sumy Region, a civilian infrastructure facility, a residential house, a non-residential building, and a hotel-restaurant complex caught fire, leaving people affected and injured; while performing duties in the Hlukhiv community, DSNS squad commander Yevhen Abramchuk was killed. Russian forces launched a missile strike on the village of Pechenihy in Kharkiv Region, setting a private property on fire and injuring ten people, including two children. In the Nikopol area, four were injured, with one person in critical condition. In Dnipro, a strike on a logistics company's building killed one person and left six hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, including a 20-year-old man. In Zaporizhzhia Region, enemy drones attacked cars, killing a man and injuring two people; destruction and fires occurred in a non-residential building.
Overnight on September 4, a high-rise building caught fire in Zaporizhzhia following a strike; three people were injured in Zaporizhzhia District over the course of the day. In Dnipropetrovsk Region, during a repeated drone strike targeting an investigative group, two police officers—Police Captain Oleksandr Hryhorenko and Senior Lieutenant Serhiy Shmatko—were killed, while another law enforcer was hospitalized in critical condition. In Nikopol District, one person was killed and three others were hospitalized, including a woman in critical condition. Enemy UAVs attacked Kropyvnytskyi: a strike on a nine-story building ignited the roof and led to one person being hospitalized, while fires also raged at an infrastructure facility. In Kherson, the enemy twice attacked public transport with drones in the morning, killing two people and injuring 13 civilians; enemy drones targeted a high-rise building in Kherson's Central District, igniting a fire across seven apartments. In the village of Stanislav, an MLRS bombardment killed a man.
On the night of September 5, Russian forces attacked Metinvest's KAMET-STAL industrial plant in Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Region; five workers were killed and four injured in the strike. In Pavlohrad District, an enterprise was also attacked, and trucks caught fire in Pavlohrad. In Dnipro and its surrounding district, one person was killed and five were injured, two critically; a service station, a supermarket, an enterprise, apartment buildings, and cars were damaged. In Kharkiv, an apartment building and a truck were damaged. In Zaporizhzhia, enemy drones targeted a parking lot and non-residential buildings, destroyed a private house, and caused fires in several city districts. In Mykolaiv, Russian forces struck the Epicentr shopping center six times throughout the day, completely destroying it; two civilians were injured, a 72-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl. In Kherson, two people were killed during shelling, while another woman, severely injured in an attack on a minibus, died in the hospital. Russian Shahed drones attacked a passenger train bound for Kherson, damaging two diesel locomotives and injuring a female railway worker. In Zhytomyr Region, Russian troops executed repeat strikes on enterprises that had previously come under fire. In Poltava Region, falling drone debris damaged private homes and cars, injuring a three-year-old child. In the Sumy community, a shopping center was damaged, with four people injured across the region.
In the Dniprovskyi District of Kherson on the night of September 6, a Russian drone hit a high-rise balcony, injuring a family with two children aged 11 and 12; the mother and children were hospitalized with injuries. In Mykolaiv Region and the regional center, two apartment buildings, transport, and infrastructure were damaged; a truck driver was killed in the Halytsynove community. In Kharkiv Region, four people were killed and eight injured: in central Chuhuiv, an enemy drone completely destroyed a private property, killing almost an entire family—a 45-year-old man, a 19-year-old girl, and an 11-year-old boy—while the mother was hospitalized in critical condition; window glass in a high-rise building, garages, and civilian cars were damaged. In Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding district, drone attacks over the past 24 hours killed one person and injured 25, while 52 residential buildings were damaged and fires broke out. In Dnipropetrovsk Region, two people were injured, and large-scale fires erupted at a food warehouse and a logistics company. In Khmelnytskyi, a drone damaged an apartment building, destroying stairs and floor slabs, injuring seven people; enterprises in the region were also targeted. In Poltava Region, UAV strikes caused fires and destruction at enterprises. In Zhytomyr, a food industry facility was hit, triggering a fire.
Donetsk Region
The enemy continues to destroy the towns and villages of Donetsk Region, razing building after building using all types of weaponry, particularly FAB-250 and FAB-500 aerial bombs. On August 30, an attack involving two FAB-250 bombs on Bylbasivka claimed the lives of two people, including a 13-year-old boy, and injured two other civilians. On the morning of August 31, occupiers struck a five-story building with a FAB-500 bomb, completely destroying one of the entrances and a private house, injuring five people.
On September 1, an airstrike on central Sloviansk and shelling across the community injured four people. Russian attacks also killed a resident of Druzhkivka. On September 2, shelling in Sloviansk and the surrounding community sparked large-scale fires in the residential sector and garages, injuring five people, including a 16-year-old boy. An administrative building of an enterprise was completely destroyed, while an educational institution, shops, outbuildings, and numerous houses were damaged. On September 4, enemy strikes on the town center and industrial area destroyed a plant, a shop, and a barbershop, and damaged an administrative building and the residential sector, injuring two people.
On August 30 in Kramatorsk, enemy shelling claimed the lives of two people. Occupiers struck a trauma clinic building a second time with two FPV drones, wounding a man. The attack damaged a flagpole, cars, a passenger bus, critical infrastructure, and residential buildings. On August 31, another attack left one person dead and three injured. On September 1, the city sustained 18 strikes, injuring four people, one of whom is in critical condition. On September 2, the enemy launched eight FAB-250 aerial bombs and deployed drones against residential, critical, and social infrastructure across the community: five people were injured, and two educational institutions, administrative buildings, and an apartment building were damaged. On September 3, artillery shelling of the private sector and an airstrike injured two more civilians.
Odesa Region
On August 31 in Odesa Region, the Russian army attacked a Nova Poshta facility, causing a fire; a gas station area was also affected, and a vehicle was damaged.
From the night of September 1, Odesa Region was under a massive combined attack: one person was injured, two residential houses were damaged, a sewing workshop and a postal terminal caught fire, and the "Orlivka" international ferry checkpoint on the Romanian border came under fire.
On September 2, during a combined attack on civilian and energy facilities in Odesa Region, eight people were injured, including a five-year-old child. In Odesa, apartments from the 17th to the 23rd floor of a 24-story residential building were damaged, along with parked cars, facades, and window glazing of two lyceums and a five-story business center, as well as storage facilities; a private enterprise, a summer house, and a gas station were destroyed. Due to damage to key main power grid facilities in the region, emergency repair works are ongoing, and temporary emergency power outages are in effect.
On the night of September 3, Odesa again came under attack, injuring at least 17 civilians, including three children. The strike caused extensive destruction in a 21-story residential building, where 20 apartments between the 10th and 17th floors were destroyed or damaged, along with 12 nearby parked cars. No fire erupted at the site of the impact.
Towards the morning of September 4, a combined strike in Odesa destroyed apartments from the sixth to the eighth floor of a nine-story building, as well as two private houses, while damaging neighboring residential buildings, a two-story non-residential structure, and dozens of private and commercial vehicles. The attack killed one person and injured at least five others, including a child.
"Towards morning, Russians struck a residential neighborhood. Dozens of warheads riddled several high-rise buildings. A resident on the eighth floor of one of them died in bed without even waking up. His neighbors received shrapnel wounds. Fifty meters from the epicenter of the attack is the house of my wife's aunt," local photojournalist Oleksandr Himanov shared regarding the consequences of the September 4 shelling.
On the afternoon of September 4, occupiers carried out a double strike on warehouses containing food and industrial goods in Odesa Region: the building's glazing and facade were damaged, and a fire broke out, destroying seven trucks and a minibus. Two people were injured at this facility. In Odesa District, the roof of a private residential house was damaged, injuring three people, including a 17-year-old boy.
Kyiv Region
Starting August 27, Kyiv has been living under a new air raid schedule. On that day, sirens sounded a record 13 times since the full-scale invasion began, and over subsequent days, alert counts reached 11–12 per day. Due to these constant threats, Kyiv businesses lost 41% of their working hours during the last week of August, according to estimates by Ukrainska Pravda's Ekonomichna Pravda.
Throughout September 1, the capital region experienced a massive combined attack involving ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones. On the night of September 1 in Kyiv, eight people were killed and at least five were injured, including three children. In the Darnytskyi District, a strike on a railway depot killed seven people—six of them railway workers—while another person was hospitalized in critical condition. The residential sector and non-residential facilities in Holosiivskyi and Solomianskyi Districts sustained damage.
On the morning of September 1, in the Podilskyi District of the capital, a jet-powered drone struck a 16-story building in the "Misto Kvitiv" residential complex, causing fires on the upper floors. Ukrainska Pravda. Zhyttia, citing DSNS spokesperson in Kyiv Pavlo Petrov, reported that the apartment hit by the UAV burned out almost entirely; no one was inside during the strike. Firefighters rescued seven residents from the building, and three people were hospitalized.
On the afternoon of September 2, a strike occurred at one of the capital's universities; 160 students were on site during the attack, but all had safely moved to shelters and were uninjured. Ukrainska Pravda. Zhyttia reports that Russian forces attacked the National University of Food Technologies during classes, damaging its buildings. Overall in Kyiv on September 2, 13 people were injured, nine of whom were hospitalized. In Shevchenkivskyi District, a UAV strike caused partial destruction and a fire in a six-story residential building, as well as a fire in an adjacent three-story structure; shockwaves blew out windows at a medical facility in the capital. In Holosiivskyi District, a warehouse caught fire.
On September 3 in the capital, 13 people were injured, including a 12-year-old girl, with six of the injured hospitalized. The greatest destruction from a UAV strike occurred at a nine-story building in Holosiivskyi District, where DSNS emergency responders evacuated 15 residents and extinguished a fire. Drone debris fell in Darnytskyi, Holosiivskyi, Solomianskyi, and Sviatoshynskyi Districts, damaging cars and park grounds, while a non-residential building caught fire.
On September 4, a drone attack hit Shevchenkivskyi District hardest, where a strike ignited a fire and destroyed a non-residential building, injuring 12 people, two critically. Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that an enemy drone hit the main SBU building in central Kyiv, directly opposite Saint Sophia Cathedral, striking the head of the agency's office. The building is a historic and architectural monument. Ukrainska Pravda. Zhyttia reports that the explosion blew out windows and frames in the nearby 18th-century Consistory Building of the "Kyiv Sophia" sanctuary, a UNESCO World Heritage site. A fire and one injury were also reported in Solomianskyi and Holosiivskyi Districts.
On September 5, Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that Russian forces carried out strikes on airports in Kyiv and Boryspil.
In Kyiv Region, the enemy continued attacking logistics infrastructure. Warehouse complexes in Brovary and Bucha Districts sustained the most systematic strikes, where the enemy resorted to insidious repeat shelling directly while firefighters worked. Ekonomichna Pravda reports that on September 3, the "Biokon" logistics complex, one of Ukraine's largest pharmaceutical storage centers, sustained severe destruction.
The region's residential sector suffered significantly from Russian attacks. Overnight on September 1 in Boryspil, a combined attack destroyed a five-story building, killing four people and injuring 13; rescuers evacuated about 50 residents. An enterprise, a service station, a store, and private homes were also damaged in the city, with vehicles catching fire. On September 5 in Boryspil, a nine-story building was struck: structures and the roof of the top floor were partially destroyed, rescuers evacuated 15 residents, and two injured women were hospitalized. In Vyshneve on September 2, a UAV strike caused destruction and fires across two townhouses. Private homes were also destroyed and damaged across the region.
Targets damaged across Obukhiv, Fastiv, Brovary, and Boryspil Districts also included: gas stations, commercial and recreational facilities, infrastructure, railway tracks, and agricultural enterprises, with wildfires erupting in local ecosystems. Settlements across Kyiv Region experienced deteriorated air quality due to fine particulate dust from the strikes, KOVA reported. Over the weekend in Fastiv District, a strike ignited a massive fire at an infrastructure facility, requiring additional forces to extinguish.
Overall, over the past week, enemy attacks in Kyiv Region killed six people and injured over thirty others, including a child.
DSNS units continue responding to the fallout from enemy shelling and secondary ammunition detonations in the village of Myla, Bucha District. The tragedy is known to have claimed 38 lives, while the number of injured has risen to 52, including five children; nearly 300 structures were destroyed or damaged, of which over 200 are residential houses and 14 are apartment buildings.
Credits:
Researcher and writer: Yana Yevmenova
Photo editor: Marusia Maruzhenko
Literary editor: Yulia Futey
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