# How Russia’s new jet drones are changing the threat to Kyiv

https://mins.news/en/item/85361

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-10-04 13:18 UTC
- World
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/how-russias-new-jet-drones-are-changing-the-threat-to-kyiv/

> As Russia intensifies drone attacks on Kyiv, Kyiv Independent journalists join a Ukrainian volunteer air defense team defending the capital. Other reporters follow Ukrainian military medics traveling from the battlefield to Sweden for a brief mental health retreat.

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