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Explosion Reported at Ukraine Security Service Headquarters in Central Kyiv

From 24.kg · () Russian

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  • Local media reported an explosion at the main building of Ukraine’s Security Service in central Kyiv.
  • President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia struck the building and that a drone hit the office of acting security service chief Oleksandr Poklad.
  • Russia’s Defense Ministry did not confirm the attack, and media reports said Poklad was not in his office at the time.

An explosion struck the main building of Ukraine’s Security Service in central Kyiv, local media reported. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia carried out the strike on the agency’s central headquarters.

Zelenskyy said a drone hit the office of Oleksandr Poklad, the acting head of the security service. Media reports said Poklad was not in the office when the strike occurred.

Russia’s Defense Ministry did not confirm the attack. The incident came amid reports that U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, would hold talks on September 5 and 6 in Moscow and Kyiv over a settlement to the conflict in Ukraine.

Russia struck the central building of the Security Service of Ukraine in central Kyiv.

· Volodymyr ZelenskyyThe Ukrainian president attributed the strike to Russia.
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Originally published by 24.kg in Russian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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