Russian Attack on Kyiv Kills 15: Ukrainian Authorities

A large-scale overnight Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv killed 15 people, including four children, the head of the city’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said on Aug. 28.

“Search and rescue operations are ongoing in the Darnytskyi district,” Tkachenko wrote on Telegram. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X that the attack was a “horrific and deliberate killing of civilians.”

“The Russians are not choosing to end the war, only new strikes,” he wrote. “Overnight in Kyiv, dozens of buildings were damaged: residential houses, office centers, civilian enterprises.”

The office of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine was also hit in the attack. European Council President Antonio Costa posted an image of a damaged office space on X.

“Horrified by yet another night of deadly Russian missile attacks on Ukraine,” Costa wrote in a post accompanying the photo.

“My thoughts are with the Ukrainian victims and also with the staff of @EUDelegationUA, whose building was damaged in this deliberate Russian strike. The EU will not be intimidated. Russia’s aggression only strengthens our resolve to stand with Ukraine and its people.”

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, echoed Costa’s sentiments and called for Russia to come to the negotiating table.

Zelenskyy called for fresh sanctions against Moscow, accusing the Kremlin of “spurning” cease-fire efforts and attempting to “weasel out of negotiations.”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that along with the EU delegation building, the offices of the British Council in the Ukrainian capital were also damaged.

Ukraine’s air force said in a post on Telegram that it downed 563 Shahed-type drones and 26 missiles during the attack.

It also noted hits on 13 locations and debris falling in 26.

Moscow, which denies targeting civilians, has increased its aerial assaults on Ukraine in recent months.

102 Ukrainian Drones Destroyed: Russian Defense Ministry

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the country’s air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 102 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones in Russian regions overnight.

Drone fragments fell on the roof of a house in the Rostov Region, and 89 people were evacuated from neighboring houses due to the threat of detonation, the region’s acting governor, Yury Slyusar said, according to Russian state-run news agency Tass.

The Ukrainian military said that its drones also hit the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region and the Kuibyshev refinery in Russia’s Samara region, according to the Kyiv Independent.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff plans to meet with Ukrainian representatives in the United States this week.

“I’m meeting with the Ukrainians this week. So I will be meeting with them this week in New York, and that’s a big signal,” Witkoff said on Fox News’s “Special Report” with Bret Baier on Aug. 26.

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15 and later with Zelenskyy at the White House on Aug. 18.

In the wake of those summits, Trump said Putin and Zelenskyy would meet, followed by a trilateral meeting that would include him.