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Russian Drone Hits Kyiv School as Over 100 Pupils and About 60 Staff Shelter

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of the intact, snow-covered exterior of Kyiv School 60 in an archival December 2012 photograph, with bare trees and lamp posts; contextual school view, not identified as the school struck on October 1, 2026 and not a depiction of that attack, rendered in warm ochre and slate-blue pastel strokes.

A Russian drone hit a school in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district on the morning of October 1, causing a fire, Mayor Vitalii Klitschko reported. Kyiv Police said more than 100 pupils and about 60 school staff were in a shelter at the time of the attack. According to the police's preliminary information, nobody was injured. The impact damaged the teaching building's facade at third-floor level before the fire broke out. Police officers, explosives specialists and State Emergency Service rescuers were working at the scene.

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