Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
(27 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv region, Ukraine - 27 August 2026
1. Car driving, smoke rising on horizon
2. Wide of woman with suitcase walking, industrial building and smoke rising
3. Various of smoke, emergency vehicles and workers
4. Various of helicopter flying, dropping water from bucket
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yelena Martynyuk, local resident:
"I got to work at about eight, it might have been ten minutes past eight, a bit earlier, I didn't check. I heard something roaring above, and I realized it was a Shahed (drone) flying right into people. First the car caught fire, then the house. Thank god, no one got hurt, they got the girl out, pulled her out, a 15-year-old. Our store was damaged too. And then people started coming over. At first, before the rescuers arrived, people who were driving by started to take out their fire extinguishers and put it out themselves."
6. People clearing debris
STORYLINE:
Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones in an overnight onslaught that ran into the daylight hours of Thursday, when explosions echoed around Kyiv through the morning.
"I heard something roaring above, and I realized it was a Shahed (drone) flying right into people. First the car caught fire, then the house," said Yelena Martynyuk, a Kyiv region resident.
"At first, before the rescuers arrived, people who were driving by started to take out their fire extinguishers and put it out themselves."
Ukraine is desperately short of U.S.-made Patriot air defense missiles that can counter Russia’s ballistic missiles, and Moscow’s fast-flying jet-powered drones have brought another challenge since the Russian military's full-scale invasion began 4½ years ago.
Ukrainian officials say Russia builds up missile stocks and launches major attacks every few days, hoping to exhaust Ukrainian defenses through the sheer weight of numbers.
In response, Ukraine has hit high-profile targets on Russian soil as the countries inflict mutual destruction.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces carried out a “massive” strike on targets in nine Ukrainian cities that began after nightfall on Wednesday.
It described the targets as military-related, including industrial facilities, oil refineries, logistics hubs and port infrastructure.
Civilian areas, including apartment buildings, suffered damage.
The barrage killed a 78-year-old woman in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and another person in the northern Kharkiv region, with at least 14 people reported wounded elsewhere, Ukrainian officials said.
AP video shot by: Dan Bashakov
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(27 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv region, Ukraine - 27 August 2026
1. Car driving, smoke rising on horizon
2. Wide of woman with suitcase walking, industrial building and smoke rising
3. Various of smoke, emergency vehicles and workers
4. Various of helicopter flying, dropping water from bucket
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yelena Martynyuk, local resident:
"I got to work at about eight, it might have been ten minutes past eight, a bit earlier, I didn't check. I heard something roaring above, and I realized it was a Shahed (drone) flying right into people. First the car caught fire, then the house. Thank god, no one got hurt, they got the girl out, pulled her out, a 15-year-old. Our store was damaged too. And then people started coming over. At first, before the rescuers arrived, people who were driving by started to take out their fire extinguishers and put it out themselves."
6. People clearing debris
STORYLINE:
Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones in an overnight onslaught that ran into the daylight hours of Thursday, when explosions echoed around Kyiv through the morning.
"I heard something roaring above, and I realized it was a Shahed (drone) flying right into people. First the car caught fire, then the house," said Yelena Martynyuk, a Kyiv region resident.
"At first, before the rescuers arrived, people who were driving by started to take out their fire extinguishers and put it out themselves."
Ukraine is desperately short of U.S.-made Patriot air defense missiles that can counter Russia’s ballistic missiles, and Moscow’s fast-flying jet-powered drones have brought another challenge since the Russian military's full-scale invasion began 4½ years ago.
Ukrainian officials say Russia builds up missile stocks and launches major attacks every few days, hoping to exhaust Ukrainian defenses through the sheer weight of numbers.
In response, Ukraine has hit high-profile targets on Russian soil as the countries inflict mutual destruction.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces carried out a “massive” strike on targets in nine Ukrainian cities that began after nightfall on Wednesday.
It described the targets as military-related, including industrial facilities, oil refineries, logistics hubs and port infrastructure.
Civilian areas, including apartment buildings, suffered damage.
The barrage killed a 78-year-old woman in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and another person in the northern Kharkiv region, with at least 14 people reported wounded elsewhere, Ukrainian officials said.
AP video shot by: Dan Bashakov
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