Russian missiles and drones hit Kyiv school, flats and Bucha home

Russian forces launched a coordinated barrage of ballistic missiles and attack drones at Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight on 29 September, hitting an educational building, an apartment block and a private home, officials said. A drone strike on a house in the Bucha district of Kyiv region set its roof on fire and injured two people, according to local reports, while one person was hurt when a six-storey apartment block was hit in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said. Ten other residents of that building were evacuated.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that a missile had hit a building belonging to an educational institution in the western Solomianskyi district, starting a fire. Emergency crews were sent to the site shortly after 02:00 local time.

Air raid sirens sounded across Kyiv shortly after 01:00 local time, after Ukraine's air force said it had detected ballistic missiles fired from Russia's Kursk region. Air defence units fired interceptor missiles, including Patriot PAC-3 systems, into the night sky as multiple explosions echoed across the capital. Further blasts shook the city around 02:45 local time, when jet-powered drones approached.

Damage was also recorded in the central Pecherskyi district, where a fire broke out in a three-storey non-residential building, and in Solomianskyi district, where Klitschko said a separate strike hit an administrative building at an infrastructure facility without starting a fire. Missile fragments also fell into the courtyard of a residential block and on open ground in Solomianskyi district, Kyiv's city military administration said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram that the overnight attacks damaged a railway depot, data centres and business centres in Kyiv, and that ten regions of Ukraine came under attack, with energy facilities also hit. He said Ukrainian air defences shot down ballistic missiles overnight but did not say how many were intercepted.

Zelensky thanked the United States and Norway for supplying a NASAMS air defence system and missiles, and France and Germany for a package of air defence missiles delivered in recent days. Several trolleybus routes were delayed on Stepan Bandera Avenue, where the contact network was damaged, and on Zhylianska Street because of road closures, Kyiv authorities said.

City inspection teams were checking each impact site to determine the extent of the damage and whether any more residents had been hurt, officials said.