{"id":419,"date":"2026-10-01T19:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2026-10-01T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:59:17","slug":"russia-drones-kyiv-school-pivdennyi-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA HITS KYIV SCHOOL AND BRIDGE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! | Students sheltered \u2014 Pivdennyi metro artery jolted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow just moved the Kyiv fight into the school calendar and the morning commute. A Russian drone slammed into the <strong>third floor of a Kyiv school<\/strong> around <strong>09:00 local time<\/strong> Thursday \u2014 and later two drones hit the <strong>Pivdennyi (Southern) bridge<\/strong>, one of the capital\u2019s main arteries across the Dnipro, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cmn8e8344v5qo\">BBC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/1\/russian-drone-hits-school-in-ukraines-kyiv-as-moscow-presses-air-assault\">Al Jazeera<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>More than <strong>100 students<\/strong> were at the school when it was hit. Head teacher Valentyna Chorna said children and staff had already reached a shelter: \u201cNone of the children were hurt, neither were any staff.\u201d Part of a wall and staircase were destroyed. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said there were no immediate casualty reports from the school strike.<\/p>\n<p>On the bridge, a metro train was crossing when the blast wave sent dust into a carriage. Reporter Mariana Mykytenko said a passenger shouted \u201cShahed\u201d before the hit; trains were suspended, though road traffic later resumed. City authorities said preliminary checks \u201cdid not find any critical damage to the structure\u201d \u2014 even after an explosion near a main support.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials say a new jet-powered drone design \u2014 <strong>~40kg warhead<\/strong>, built to smash pylons and iron bridges \u2014 entered service Wednesday. Air force figures: at least <strong>3,177<\/strong> Russian drone strikes in September through the 29th. This is a different chapter from Wednesday\u2019s overnight energy-grid barrage already covered here \u2014 daylight school, daylight bridge, capital jammed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cmn8e8344v5qo\">BBC<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/1\/russian-drone-hits-school-in-ukraines-kyiv-as-moscow-presses-air-assault\">Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students sheltered \u2014 Pivdennyi metro artery jolted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-kyiv-school-bridge-1001.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}