Russian drones kill two in Kyiv science academy strike — SkimNews
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- Russia pounded the heart of Kyiv with some of the most persistent drone strikes since the start of the war, hitting civilian and institutional targets across the Ukrainian capital on Monday.
- A drone struck the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv, killing at least two people in the assault on the historic civilian research institution.
Why it matters: A direct hit on a civilian scientific institution in central Kyiv — not a military target — shows Russia's drone campaign continuing to escalate into Ukraine's civic and intellectual infrastructure, with at least two confirmed dead from a single strike on the academy.
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