KYIV – September 11, 2026 – Russian jet-powered drones struck two Ukrnafta gas stations in Kyiv on Friday, killing two people and injuring nine, including an emergency worker hit in a repeat strike, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the blasts followed a morning air-raid alert. The stations were in the Dniprovskyi and Obolonskyi districts, Kyiv Post reported. Officials said one site was hit twice.
The attacks came a day after what city officials described as the first Russian strike on a Kyiv petrol station in the war. Zelenskyy said drones also hit a Kyivstar telecom building, with strikes reported in eight other regions.
He called the jet-powered Shahed-type drones “increasingly terrorist in nature,” saying they fly faster and give air defences less time to intercept.
The hits landed a day after Prime Minister Mark Carney hosted Zelenskyy in Canada and announced new winter energy support, including nearly $435 million in loan guarantees through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for gas purchases and backup generators, $200 million in Export Development Canada loans, and another $10 million for the Ukraine Energy Support Fund.
Canada has committed more than $26 billion in assistance since 2022, the Prime Minister’s Office said. Ottawa also pledged about $350 million for air-defence interceptors this week.
That package is not abstract in Northwestern Ontario. Thunder Bay is home to Holy Cross, the largest Ukrainian Catholic parish in the region, and Kenora Supports Ukraine has resettled newcomers here since the full-scale invasion. Friday’s strikes show Russia is now hitting the fuel Ukrainians need before winter, the same problem Ottawa’s new aid is meant to cover.
Zelenskyy asked allies to keep expanding air defence, saying partners’ aircraft and missiles “save lives every day.”
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