What happened
From late morning on 1 October 2026 Russian drones struck Kyiv's Southern Bridge four times in two days, and the Northern Bridge on 3 October — the first strikes of the war on the capital's Dnipro crossings. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported damage to the road surface and trolleybus power lines and two people injured on 3 October, and the city's military administration restricted crossing traffic during air alerts. On 3 October Mykola Kalashnyk, the minister responsible for infrastructure, said a dam and a pontoon crossing were being built and could take up to three months, and that about 600,000 cars cross between the two banks each day. The strikes followed a combined attack on 30 September that Ukraine's prime minister called the first massive strike on the energy system since the end of the last heating season. President Zelensky said on 3 October that Ukrainian intelligence had obtained documents showing a Russian order to widen winter strikes to infrastructure, logistics and roads in order to pressure people to leave cities; Russia's foreign ministry said the same day that it was striking military facilities in Kyiv and warned foreign diplomats against staying in Ukraine.
Until this week Russia's strikes on the capital had reached generation, telecoms and data centres; the crossings put the transport layer that joins the city's two banks inside the campaign, and the state's answer — a substitute crossing — is an admission of exposure in its own terms. What the strikes were meant to achieve is not established here: the purpose rests on a Ukrainian intelligence claim that has not been published, and the Russian account names only military facilities. The record carries no damage assessment and publishes no crossing as a map marker.
Confidence: High
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