Ukraine's largest drone attack of the war halted Moscow's oil refinery on Sept 21. Will Russia strike Kyiv before Sept 28?
70% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 10 predictions cast.
Russia struck Kyiv before September 28, 2026, as the war's aerial exchanges escalated through late September. Russian drone and missile attacks hit the Kyiv region overnight and into the following days, killing multiple civilians, including children, according to Ukrainian officials.
The strikes came in the wake of Ukraine's largest drone attack of the war on Moscow, launched September 20, which set fire to the Gazpromneft-Moscow oil refinery and, according to Moscow's mayor, involved more than 1,600 drones intercepted across Russia, with roughly 450 aimed at the capital. Russian officials reported deaths in the Moscow strikes as well. Russia's retaliatory attacks on Kyiv continued in the following days, with strikes hitting the capital and causing casualties as both sides escalated long-range drone and missile campaigns against each other's infrastructure and population centers.
The community correctly anticipated this outcome, with 70% expecting a Russian strike on Kyiv within the window. The exchange reflected an intensifying pattern through September 2026, in which Ukraine's deepest strikes yet into Russian territory were consistently met with retaliatory Russian barrages on Ukrainian cities, even as diplomatic efforts to broker a ceasefire between Washington, Moscow and Kyiv continued in parallel without a breakthrough.