‘This is terrorism’: daytime Russian strike hits science academy in Kyiv

A Russian drone struck Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding three others, according to mayor Vitali Klitschko. The 19th-century building caught fire as occupants fled through windows; academy president Anatoliy Zagorodny called the attack "terrorism" against a civilian scientific institution. A second Russian drone hit a nearby private medical centre, killing at least one person, as Moscow intensifies daytime bombardment of the capital with increasingly sophisticated jet-powered drones designed to wear down public resilience and damage the economy.