# Jet-Powered Drones Hit Kyiv School and Logistics Hub as Russia Launches 107-Drone Attack

*Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 8:05 AM UTC — Hamer Intelligence Services Desk*

**Published**: 2026-10-01T08:05:59.347Z (3h ago)
**Category**: conflict | **Region**: Eastern Europe
**Importance**: 9/10
**Sources**: OSINT
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**Deck**: Russia launched 107 drones at Ukraine overnight, including jet-powered systems that struck a school and warehouse areas in Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials. A Ukrainian defense adviser says Moscow has also introduced a new drone warhead intended to damage power infrastructure, raising fresh concern for the grid as winter nears.

An overnight Russian drone barrage on 1 October damaged a school, warehouses and what analysts identify as a major logistics site in Kyiv, while also triggering fresh power outages in several regions, according to Ukrainian authorities and open-source reporting. A Ukrainian defense technology adviser says Russia is now fielding a new warhead for its jet-powered drones that’s configured to cut through power infrastructure.

Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russia launched 107 drones, including 63 jet-powered Shahed-type systems, and that air defenses downed or suppressed 87 of them. Impacts were still recorded at 11 locations. Police in Kyiv said a drone hit a school in the city’s Solomianskyi district, damaging the facade of the educational building at third-floor level and starting a fire. According to the police, more than 100 students and around 60 school employees were in a shelter at the time, and no casualties were initially reported.

Kyiv’s military administration confirmed a strike on an educational facility in Solomianskyi and reported hits on warehouses in the same district, with information on possible casualties still being clarified. Air-raid alerts over the capital were issued for a drone threat, including before dawn and again later in the morning.

In northern Kyiv, NASA FIRMS satellite fire-detection data indicated a large blaze at a logistics centre following what Ukrainian and Russian-linked channels described as jet-powered Geran-4 drone strikes. Open-source coordinates place the fire in the Obolon district, where warehouses were burning. Russian military sources claimed the target was the Rent Logistics transport hub and alleged that a warehouse there housed a workshop producing uncrewed surface vessels, sometimes called drone boats. Those claims have not been independently verified.

Further south, a powerful fire was recorded at the "Azot" plant in Cherkasy on the previous afternoon. NASA maps later marked a strong thermal signature at the site, which is a major industrial facility. Separately, Ukraine’s national grid operator Ukrenergo reported new electricity outages in the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Rivne and Kirovohrad, attributing them to Russian strikes.

Ukrainian defense technology adviser Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov said Russia may have used a new payload called KRSN on a jet-powered drone for the first time on 30 September. He described it as having a 40‑kilogram main charge and four additional strike modules, and said it is designed to "literally cut through" power infrastructure rather than act as a conventional blast warhead. His assessment has not yet been backed by independent forensic analysis, but it aligns with Russia’s ongoing focus on Ukraine’s energy system.

On the other side of the border, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed its air defense forces shot down 330 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight and said there were no serious consequences. That statement, alongside Ukraine’s figures, underscores how both sides now lean heavily on uncrewed systems to attack each other’s logistics and infrastructure.

Ukraine’s grid has endured repeated waves of strikes since the start of the full-scale invasion. A warhead tailored to damage power lines and substations could make repairs slower and more resource-intensive, especially if used in large numbers. With temperatures set to fall in the coming months, the pattern of targets in future Russian attacks — and any confirmed evidence of KRSN-type warheads — will show whether Moscow is shifting toward an intensified winter campaign against energy and urban sites.