Kyiv Suffers One Death and Eight Injuries as Oleshky Truce Initiates

Eight people were wounded and one died in Russian strikes on Kyiv on Monday, according to local officials. The attack occurred just hours before a scheduled truce was set to take effect in the occupied city of Oleshky. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that medical facilities and an intensive care unit sustained damage during the late Monday bombardment.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy identified the weapons used as ballistic missiles. He stated that the projectiles struck a university campus in the capital. Zelenskyy noted that the missiles targeted crowded areas without any nearby military facilities. He described the event as a direct strike on the city's infrastructure via a social media post.

The timing of the Kyiv attack coincided with the start of a humanitarian truce in Oleshky, located in the southern Kherson region. The ceasefire was designed to allow aid supplies to reach residents who had faced shortages of food, water, and medicine for months. The agreement went into effect at 3:00 am local time. No end date has been established for the truce.

The Russian defense ministry announced on Friday that it would cease fire in the Kherson sector for the duration of the ceasefire. Neither Russia, Ukraine, nor the United States has specified which entity will monitor the truce. Officials have also not provided details regarding the humanitarian operation that will accompany the ceasefire. Ukraine has accused Moscow of preventing residents from leaving Oleshky, a claim Russian officials have denied.

In related developments, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was waiting for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to approve missile supplies for Patriot and NASAMS systems. He said the wait had lasted nearly a month. In Romania, authorities reported that a network coordinated from Russia started a fire near an arms factory in Brasov on September 14. Two suspects were detained in Germany, while a third remains at large in Poland.

The Brasov incident is part of a series of sabotage events in Europe that NATO and the EU describe as a hybrid campaign. At least eight cargo ships have been hit off the coasts of Romania and Bulgaria in the past three weeks, leaving 34 sailors dead or missing. Additionally, Ukraine’s 475th Separate Assault Regiment reported using a new six-rotor drone called the StarGate to evacuate wounded soldiers. The drone, developed by SkyFall, carried two troops to safety near the Russian border in the first such missions.