Conflict · Kyiv daytime strikesRussian Drones Kill Two at Kyiv Science Academy; Nearby Clinic Remains ClosedAired September 30, 2026 at 12:15 PM UTCWritten September 30, 2026 at 12:26 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:09Flames cut off staff inside Ukraine's science academy, forcing them to escape0:13through windows.0:14Two people died and six were injured.0:17A separate drone struck a nearby medical center, interrupting patient care and0:21leaving one woman in intensive care.0:23With the academy rescue operation complete, what remains unresolved for the victims,0:27and when can medical services return?0:29Two Russian jet-powered drones struck different buildings several blocks apart on0:34September 28, 2026.0:36The first hit the National Academy of Sciences Presidium headquarters at 540:40Volodymyrska Street in Kiev's Shevchenkivsky District just before or around 1.30 in0:45the afternoon.0:46Roughly an hour later, another hit Dobroboat at 40 Antonovicha Street, near0:50Olympieska Metro in Holosievsky District.0:53These were separate impacts, not two names for the same attack.0:57The two deaths occurred at the academy.0:59The initial claim that someone also died at the medical center is not supported.1:03All Dobrobot employees and visitors survived.1:06The academy's second and third floors were partly destroyed.1:09Fire engulfed the upper levels of the three-story headquarters, burning extensively1:13above the first floor.1:14Staff escaped through windows and two people were brought down by ladder.1:18The walls remained standing, but the damage was significant.1:20This was an attack on the institution's working day headquarters, not evidence that1:24every academy institute or laboratory had been destroyed.1:27The academy death toll rose from one to two after rescuers recovered a second body1:31from the rubble that evening.1:32Injury counts moved from three through four and five to six.1:35Six replaces the initial three.1:37It does not mean six additional injuries.1:39At twenty twenty-one, the public count still listed one death alongside six1:42injuries.1:43At twenty-three twenty-one, the death count had risen to two.1:46Those are update times, not established times of death or body recovery.1:49Firefighters extinguished the fire, and emergency rescue work was completed that1:53evening.1:54Initial fears that colleagues remain trapped were overtaken by that completed1:57operation.1:58Descriptions of recovery continuing on September 29th did not reflect the later2:02official rescue status.2:03Completion of rescue work does not mean the headquarters was repaired or normal2:07operations resumed.2:08Natalia Mykalaevna Bukolov was one of the two people killed.2:12She was 44, an assistant to Academy First Vice President Volodymyr Horbulin, and had2:17worked at the Presidium since 2016.2:19Born on October 19, 1981, in Buzeki in Valin, she left a husband and daughter.2:25Her husband, Vyacheslav Bukolov, was also seriously injured.2:28The second person killed had not been publicly identified by September 30th.2:33Horbulin survived with minor injuries from shattered glass.2:36The drone struck a room one floor above his office and he was already at home on2:40September 28th.2:41He is a former secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council.2:45His injuries and his assistant's death do not establish that he was the intended2:49target, nor does confirmation of two deaths validate the early description of two2:53deceased academicians.2:55The Academy did not confirm that both victims held that title.2:58Its subsequent statement described two people killed.3:01Bukolov's farewell was announced for September 30th at 10 in the morning, Kiev time,3:05at 9 Orangerina Street, with burial to follow in Valen, by the information cutoff,3:09September 30th at 8.15 UTC.3:11The scheduled start had passed.3:13Completion of the ceremony had not been verified.3:15The damaged headquarters had served the academy since 1919.3:19Architect Oleksandr Beretti built it in 1851 and 52 as Countess Levashova's boarding3:24school for girls.3:25A third floor was added in 1891 and 92.3:28The Academy itself was founded in 1918.3:30The building was transferred to it in February 1919 and became its presidium seat3:35that year.3:35The distinction matters.3:36The institution's founding and its occupation of this headquarters were separate3:40events.3:41Fire damaged both medical care and teaching space at Dobrobut.3:44Its academy occupied the upper floors, with outpatient clinical services below.3:48Courtyard-facing windows on the first through third floors were blown out, and3:52medical equipment was damaged.3:54The roof of a nearby four-story residential building also caught fire.3:58The medical network described this as the second attack on its Antonovicha site.4:02The consequences extended beyond putting out the flames.4:05Patients lost on-site access to a damaged clinic.4:08Ten people had received care after the Dobrobut strike by September 29th, but that4:13is not an interchangeable final injury count.4:15The initial clinic tally was seven injured, including six employees.4:19The emergency service tally was eight injured at and near the address, covering the4:23medical center and neighboring residential building, including a rescued resident.4:27The later 10-person figure counts people receiving care.4:30These groups must not be added together.4:32Calling all 10 injured without preserving the care wording would erase an important4:36difference in scope.4:37One woman remained in intensive care in serious but stable condition in the4:41September 29th update.4:43Nine of the ten people who received care were already at home.4:46Being home does not establish that they were uninjured or needed no further4:49treatment.4:50No later public condition update for the woman was established before the September4:5430th cutoff.4:55The Antonovicha clinic remained closed in its September 29th operating update.4:59Damage assessment and recovery planning were underway, with no restored on-site5:03services established.5:05Dobrobe at Academy activities continued online or at other locations.5:08A reopening notice dated August 29th, 2025, concerned recovery after an earlier5:14attack.5:14It cannot establish reopening after this September strike.5:18No September 2026 reopening was verified.5:20Kiev's citywide injury count rose from 14 to 19, and then 24 during September 28th.5:2619 injured with 6 receiving hospital treatment was an intermediate snapshot.5:31The later count included 3 injured children with 6 people hospitalized, 2 of them5:35children.5:36These figures cover attacks across Kyiv, not just the Academy and Dobrobut.5:40They cannot be added to the site-specific counts or used to place all three injured5:44children inside, either institution.5:46Earlier nationwide totals of at least seven dead and more than 50 wounded also5:50covered a much wider area.5:51They were not Kiev-only figures.5:53Some Academy-affiliated institutes have supported wartime technologies, including5:57drones and vehicle armor.5:58That broader research activity does not establish that a military operation was6:02taking place in the Presidium building, that Horbulin was selected as a target, or6:06that the clinic was a military objective.6:08Calling the strike terrorism is a characterization separate from proof of either6:12weapons programmed aim.6:13The stated Russian targets that day were fuel and telecommunications infrastructure6:17and several data centers in Kiev.6:20Neither the Academy Presidium, Dobro Boot, nor Horbulin was publicly named as an6:24intended target.6:25The headquarters stands near the National Opera, St.6:28Vlodymir's Cathedral, the German Embassy, and Ukra Telecom offices.6:32Their proximity locates the impact in Kiev's central institutional district.6:36It does not establish which building either drone was programmed to hit.6:39Direct impacts on scientific and medical premises during the day are established.6:43The precise intended aim of either weapon remains unknown.6:45The Academy is asking the international scientific community to withhold renewed or6:49legitimized institutional cooperation with Russian state science and education while6:53the war continues.6:54Its September 29th appeal addresses academies, universities, research centers,6:58scientific foundations, international scientific organizations and publishers.7:02That is a demand concerning institutional ties with Russian state bodies, not a7:06demand to sever every individual scientific contact.7:09The Academy had already cut cooperation with Russian scientific organizations and7:13scientists in 2022.7:15the Russian Academy's membership in Aliyah, the European Federation of Academies,7:19remained suspended.7:20The immediate rescue uncertainty at the Academy is resolved.7:23A second victim was recovered and the emergency operation ended on September 28th.7:28The remaining unknowns are the second victim's identity, subsequent medical updates7:33for Vyacheslav Bukolo and the woman in intensive care, and the scale and timetable7:37of repairs.7:38There is no verified date for patients to return to the Antonovica clinic.7:42Its staff and visitors survived, but its doors remained closed in the September7:46twenty ninth operating update.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗