On Thursday, September 10, 2026, a Russian unmanned aerial vehicle struck a gas station of the Ukrnafta network in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv. According to rescue services and city authorities, the strike set a passenger car on fire, damaged a public transport stop, and triggered a fire in an adjacent eight-story non-residential building. After a second hit, diesel generators caught fire. State Emergency Service (SES) crews were on site, working to contain the flames and douse the charred structures with water.
Course of the attack and aftermath
According to the SES statement, several fire outbreaks arose at the impact site immediately. In addition to the passenger car and the generators, the fire spread to part of the non-residential building. Drone debris is scattered across the surrounding area, and the gas station's structural elements and equipment sustained damage. Preliminary information indicates that the casualties were people who were near the gas station complex at the time of the attack, rather than station staff or customers.
Reaction from Naftogaz and Ukrnafta
Acting head of the Naftogaz board, Serhiy Fedorenko, stated that the strike on the gas station 'has no military logic whatsoever' and amounts to 'the enemy's blatant terror and an attempt to intimidate people.' He emphasized that, per safety rules, the gas station was not operating during the air raid alert, and staff and customers had left the premises. Ukrnafta board chairman Bohdan Kukura confirmed that customers and staff had left in advance and therefore were not injured, and noted that the company is recording damage to structural buildings and equipment, calling the attack 'terrorism and intimidation of the civilian population.'
Context: morning shelling of Kyiv
The strike on the gas station was part of a broader drone attack on the capital on the morning of September 10. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that in the Holosiivskyi district a drone fell on a non-residential building (with no fire or casualties) as well as on the gas station grounds, where people were injured. In the Dniprovskyi district, a warehouse building caught fire after a UAV crash, and a fire broke out in a nine-story residential building. In the Desnyanskyi district, a drone fell on open ground next to a 16-story building, cars caught fire, and in the Svytoshynskyi district a drone crashed near a shopping center.
Contradictory data
The exact number of casualties differs across the parties' statements. Initial reports cite the figure 'three injured,' while Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko used the phrasing 'several people were injured' in his message. The discrepancy may be explained by the fact that the data were being refined as medical workers worked on site. No single final figure has been announced as of the time of preparing this material, so both versions are presented without choosing one over the other.
