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Russia Pounds Kyiv in Non-Stop Jet-Powered Drone Barrage, Injuring Six People
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Russian forces struck Kyiv in a drawn-out daytime assault on July 8, sending successive waves of jet-powered drones over the capital and wounding at least six people, including two medics.
Kyiv's mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, confirmed the attack in a series of Telegram updates as air-raid alerts sounded across the Kyiv region. Emergency crews rushed to the impact site, and all six of the wounded were hospitalized.
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"In the Desnianskyi district, according to preliminary information, an enemy drone fell and exploded near a gas distribution station," he wrote.
Ukraine's Air Force issued repeated warnings as jet-powered drones crossed the Kyiv region on a course for the city from the north.
Its updates tracked one fast-moving drone after another, and the assault stretched into the middle of the day rather than the overnight hours when such strikes typically land.
The drones the Air Force flagged belong to a jet-powered class of Shahed-type attack drone that Russia has pushed into wider use in 2026. Unlike the propeller-driven Shahed-136, which cruises at roughly 180 to 200 km/h, the jet variants fly several times faster and at higher altitudes, according to Ukrainian assessments.
That extra speed and altitude sharply narrow the time Ukrainian crews have to intercept them before they reach populated areas.
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Flying higher and faster than their propeller-driven predecessors, the jet drones compress the window for interception and allow Russia to press daytime attacks deep inside the country.
The drone waves came alongside a ballistic missile strike on the capital the same day, which killed one woman and wounded two others while setting a warehouse ablaze in the Desnianskyi district.
A separate fire broke out in a non-residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district, and Klitschko urged residents to remain in shelters as ballistic weapons bore down on the city.
Prolonged daytime barrages have become a hallmark of Russia's air campaign.
In mid-May, Russia mounted one of its longest mass aerial attacks of the war, sending at least 800 drones across Ukraine in a single day, in successive waves of Shaheds that killed six people and wounded dozens, including children.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the assault as a deliberate bid to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses and inflict as much civilian harm as possible.
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