# Kyiv now feels like a front-line city — but its resolve is holding, for now

https://mins.news/en/item/85170

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-10-04 08:20 UTC
- World
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-now-feels-like-a-front-line-city-but-its-resolve-is-holding-for-now/

> Russia has increasingly sent jet-powered attack drones toward Kyiv around the clock, bringing alerts, air-defense fire and explosions into daytime routines. At least 16 people were killed and more than 100 injured in Kyiv and the surrounding region between Sept. 25 and Oct. 2. Sociologists say residents are increasingly resembling people in eastern regions closer to the front line.

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