Smoke rises from a burning pharmaceutical warehouse following Russian drone attacks on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drone and missile attacks on Kyiv once came mostly at night. Now, a shift in tactics has brought attacks day and night, shattering the expectation that daylight means a return to normal life and leaving residents exhausted by constant disruption.
Locals watch as firefighters work after a Russian drone attack struck a residential building in Kyiv, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a destroyed warehouse after Russian drone attacks on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Schoolgirls work on a lesson in a bomb shelter during a Russian air attack on the first day at school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)A woman walks along a road as smoke rises from a destroyed warehouse after a Russian drone attack on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Firefighters work at a residential building after a Russian drone attack struck in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)Pallbearers carry the coffin of Taras Didych, head of the Dmytrivska community in Kyiv region who was killed while going to help local residents following a Russian drone attack, during his funeral in Myla on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)A man walks past a crater left after a Russian attack at an elementary school in Kyiv, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)Ivan Datsiv, left, talks to a friend inside his apartment the day after a Russian drone attack struck his building in Kyiv, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)A firefighter walks next to a destroyed warehouse after Russian drone attacks at the outskirt of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Firefighters walk among debris at a destroyed pharmaceutical warehouse after Russian drone attacks on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Children, parents and teachers stay in an underground shelter during an air raid alarm during the traditional back to school celebrations in Kyiv, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)A woman rides a bicycle as firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a destroyed pharmaceutical warehouse following Russian drone attacks on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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