Kyiv under renewed Russian assault: petrol station hit, apartment blocks and metro damaged in September strikes

Russian forces struck a petrol station in Kyiv on 10 September, causing injuries, the latest in a relentless series of attacks on the Ukrainian capital since the start of the month. The exact toll and extent of damage were not immediately available, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

Two days earlier, on 8 September, Russian attacks damaged 14 apartment blocks and a metro station in Kyiv, Ukrainska Pravda reported. The same day, Russian forces struck an already destroyed warehouse belonging to one of Ukraine's largest pharmaceutical distributors, the outlet said. The repeated targeting of the same site suggests a deliberate effort to disrupt medical supply chains, though Kyiv officials have not yet offered a detailed explanation.

The deadliest barrage this month came on 1 September, when Russian ballistic missiles and drones killed at least 12 people and wounded 21 in Kyiv and the surrounding region, authorities said. Al Jazeera reported that Kyiv regional military administration chief Tymur Tkachenko described a "massive attack" overnight. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least eight people were killed and five injured, including two children, in the city itself, while prosecutors reported four more deaths in the region, with a residential building damaged in the suburb of Boryspil. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said an Indian citizen was among the dead and that 50 people were evacuated from the Boryspil building. He used the attack to renew his call for more air defences, saying Russia "succeeds only when air defence capabilities are insufficient."

In a separate attack overnight on 1 September, three people were killed and five injured in Kyiv, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration via Ukrainska Pravda. That report also mentioned an unconfirmed fire in a city building.

Also on 1 September, a strike was recorded in the village of Chaiky in Kyiv Oblast's Bucha district. Oleksandr Medvid, acting head of the Borshchahivka village council, said emergency services were at the scene; local Telegram channels reported that warehouses may have been targeted. Ukrainska Pravda covered his statement. Medvid urged residents to remain in shelters and not to post photos or videos from the scene.

Russia's defence ministry claimed it had hit military and energy facilities in Kyiv and Odesa, a standard assertion that Kyiv does not accept. The 1 September barrage coincided with an EU defence ministers' meeting in Ireland to discuss Ukraine's air defence shortages, underscoring the urgency of the discussion.

As of 10 September, there is no public indication of new Western air defence commitments beyond existing pledges. The continued strikes on residential blocks, a metro station, a pharmaceutical warehouse and a petrol station suggest that Russian forces are willing to keep targeting civilian infrastructure in the capital, and that Ukraine's need for additional interceptors remains acute.

For context, see our earlier report on the 1 September attack: Kyiv reels after Russia's deadliest missile-drone barrage of 2026.