Two killed in Russian attack on Kyiv petrol station
A Russian drone attack on petrol stations in Kyiv on 11 September killed two people and injured eight, with different Ukrainian agencies reporting varying casualty figures.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that two city residents were killed in a Russian attack on a petrol station in the capital on Wednesday, 11 September. According to Klitschko, eight people in total were injured in the morning attack, six of whom were hospitalized.
However, the Kyiv City Military Administration provided somewhat different figures, stating that a 36-year-old man died in hospital from his injuries, while six people in total were reported injured. Meanwhile, Kyiv's State Emergency Service reported that as of 11:23, five people had been injured, including one rescuer. The official sources therefore give differing accounts of the incident's toll.
Circumstances of the attack
Russian occupying forces struck Kyiv with jet-powered drones on the morning of 11 September, hitting petrol stations in two districts of the city. Serhii Fedorenko, acting head of Naftogaz, confirmed that a jet drone struck an Ukrnafta filling station complex. He noted that, under safety rules, the station was not operating during the air raid alert, but people nearby were injured nonetheless.
This was not the first such strike within the week — on 10 September, Russian occupiers hit a petrol station in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district with a drone, injuring four people.
