Sep 28, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
EU defence ministers meet in Brussels on Ukraine aid and Russia's sanctions-busting "shadow fleet," as Moscow escalates missile and drone strikes. Elsewhere, Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz offer…
Ukraine is facing an intensifying wave of Russian aerial attacks, combining large numbers of drones with new, faster jet-powered models as well as missiles.
In Kiev, repeated attacks and air raid alerts are stretching through the day and night, putting growing pressure on Ukraine's air defenses and on millions of civilians trying to continue their daily lives under almost constant threats from the sky.
Sasha, you've been speaking both to residents living through these attacks and to the servicemen trying to defend the capital.
What are they telling you about how the situation is now and how it has changed?
In Kyiv right now, drone attacks and air raid alerts are literally non-stop.
On Sunday only, Russia hit two kindergartens, two schools, a residential building, car repair shop and communication facilities.
And this pace, this relentless pace of the attacks is exhausting not only Ukraine's air defense, but also the people who live here.
they still have to go to work, children still have to go to school, and the families still have to carry on.
And that means leaving the people with impossible calculation when to seek shelter or when to simply carry on.
Some Kyiv residents I talked to here said that when the most immediate danger comes, they practically have no time to seek shelter.
I always turn up the volume on my phone so I can tell exactly what sort of alarm is going on.
If I see its missiles, then we have two seconds to get out in the corridor.
We can't make it down to the shelter.
We don't have that time.
Because within two seconds, we are out in the corridor or the bathroom.
And the loud, powerful explosions have already started.
So there is not even a chance or any sense that you will survive.
You just hope that you will actually make it today alive.
And
you just hope that you will actually survive today.
Some
people can't go to work, some people can't even get their children to school.
You are sitting at work, the air raid siren goes off, and your child is still there.
Ukraine is facing an intensifying wave of Russian aerial attacks, combining large numbers of drones with new, faster jet-powered models as well as missiles.
In Kiev, repeated attacks and air raid alerts are stretching through the day and night, putting growing pressure on Ukraine's air defenses and on millions of civilians trying to continue their daily lives under almost constant threats from the sky.
Sasha, you've been speaking both to residents living through these attacks and to the servicemen trying to defend the capital.
What are they telling you about how the situation is now and how it has changed?
In Kyiv right now, drone attacks and air raid alerts are literally non-stop.
On Sunday only, Russia hit two kindergartens, two schools, a residential building, car repair shop and communication facilities.
And this pace, this relentless pace of the attacks is exhausting not only Ukraine's air defense, but also the people who live here.
they still have to go to work, children still have to go to school, and the families still have to carry on.
And that means leaving the people with impossible calculation when to seek shelter or when to simply carry on.
Some Kyiv residents I talked to here said that when the most immediate danger comes, they practically have no time to seek shelter.
I always turn up the volume on my phone so I can tell exactly what sort of alarm is going on.
If I see its missiles, then we have two seconds to get out in the corridor.
We can't make it down to the shelter.
We don't have that time.
Because within two seconds, we are out in the corridor or the bathroom.
And the loud, powerful explosions have already started.
So there is not even a chance or any sense that you will survive.
You just hope that you will actually make it today alive.
And
you just hope that you will actually survive today.
Some
people can't go to work, some people can't even get their children to school.
You are sitting at work, the air raid siren goes off, and your child is still there.
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