Russia Hits Kyiv’s Telecom Building Amid Widening Gas Station Strikes

Russian jet-powered drones struck a building belonging to telecommunications company Kyivstar and targeted gas stations across Kyiv on Friday, Sept. 11, killing two people and injuring nineAccording to a statement published by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, Russian forces attacked gas stations in the Ukrainian capital throughout the day as a wave of drone strikes that began overnight continued across several regions.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.Zelensky called Russia’s use of jet-powered drones “increasingly terrorist in nature.”The president said two people were killed in the attacks on Kyiv’s gas stations and offered his condolences to their families and loved ones, after two gas stations operated by state-owned chain Ukrnafta were struck in the capital’s Dniprovskyi and Obolonskyi districts.Another nine people were injured, according to Zelensky, including an emergency worker wounded when Russian forces carried out a repeat strike on one of the sites.The attack followed another Russian drone strike on a Ukrnafta gas station the day prior.The new waves came after reports that Russia had compiled a plan to strike around 20 gas stations in the capital began circulating on social media on Wednesday.Kyiv Post reached out to the government to verify the legitimacy of the rumored list but had not received a response at the time of publication.Attack on KyivstarRussian drones also hit a building belonging to Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications company, the same firm that was the target of a crippling Russian cyberattack in late 2023. Other Topics of Interest Ukraine Strikes Russian Aircraft Engine Plant, Pantsir Air Defenses – General Staff The strikes are part of Ukraine’s ongoing campaign against Russian military infrastructure and the defense-industrial network supporting Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Zelensky did not disclose the extent of the damage or say whether the latest strike had affected the company’s services.The attacks on Kyiv continued overnight and involved jet-powered versions of Russia’s Shahed-type strike drones, which fly faster and give Ukrainian air defenses less time to detect and intercept them.Russian strikes were also reported in the Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions, according to Zelensky.The president appealed to Ukraine’s allies to work against Russia’s evolving drone capabilities.“We cannot simply wait while Russia perfects its repertoire of killing,” Zelensky said.He called for an expansion of measures against Russian drones and thanked Ukraine’s partners for providing aircraft and air defense systems with urgently needed missiles.“All of this saves lives every day,” Zelensky added. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 97% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.