Russia fired ballistic missiles and dozens of jet-powered drones at Kyiv, Ukraine’s air force said Tuesday (September 29, 2026), as Moscow seeks to make Ukraine buckle under the pressure of day-and-night bombardment of its capital and other cities.
He said late Monday that another 10,000 North Korean troops are heading to Russia, adding to the 8,000 he said are already there. Because of the Iran war, and Ukraine has received only small numbers of them this year despite President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s pleading, patriot stockpiles are low, largely.
Ukraine said that its air defences shot down two ballistic missiles overnight, which suggested that Kyiv had recently received some more Patriots. The Russian Defence Ministry said that its forces hit data processing centres in Kyiv that Moscow says are used by the Ukrainian military, which is increasingly deploying artificial intelligence on the battlefield. Other Russian targets included facilities in the Ukrainian capital and the Kyiv region where drones and cruise missiles were stored, as well as an electrical substation, a drone manufacturing facility, and port infrastructure facilities in the southern Odesa region, the Ministry said. Ukrainian authorities said that the barrage hit apartment buildings, houses and public transportation in Kyiv, wounding one person. In Odesa, the attack wounded eight people overnight and damaged residential buildings, civilian infrastructure, a school, an animal shelter and port infrastructure, local officials said.
