A Ukrainian serviceman, Oleh, looks for his wife, Yevheniia, and her mother at the site of their private house hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, 30 September 2026;
Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
(Reuters) - Russian air strikes killed three people, including a child, and injured another seven in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region early on Wednesday 30 September 2026, officials said.
The attack killed two people and injured four in the capital, the Kyiv City Military Administration said on Telegram, and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said fires broke out, affecting private houses along with a shop and a warehouse.
A Reuters witness heard explosions in the city.
Tymur Tkachenko, Kyiv regional governor, writing on Telegram, said that a Russian missile and a drone strike killed a child and injured three more people in the area, also damaging infrastructure facilities, houses, warehouses and cars.
Ukraine's neighbours, European Union and NATO members Romania and Poland, both scrambled military jets to protect their airspace amid Russian attacks on Ukraine, according to defence ministry and armed forces statements on X.
A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Samara region, an oil-producing and refining hub some 1,100 km by road southeast of Moscow, damaged private houses, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said on social media platform VK.
Reuters could not immediately independently verify the reports.
