Seven Iranian-designed Russian Shahed drones struck the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on 6 September evening, leaving fifteen people wounded and reducing a kindergarten to rubble.

The attack unfolded around 9 p.m. as residents heard the familiar buzz of approaching drones. Viktor watched from his second-floor window as one headed straight for his neighborhood.

“I saw the drone flying, I thought it would fly straight into the roof,” he told Suspilne Zaporizhzhia.

The blast wave threw his wife from their home. Viktor found her unconscious under the door and dragged her to safety before their children rushed her to the hospital. Windows and doors throughout his house were blown out, his barn burned down, and a massive crater now marks his garden.

“The blast wave threw her out of the house. I found her under the door and dragged her to the garage, and the children took her to the hospital,” he shared.

Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, reported that four people required hospitalization: three women and one man injured, all in moderate condition. But the kindergarten bore the worst damage—80% of the building destroyed.

Ukrainian air defenses managed to intercept some drones before they reached their targets. The ones that got through also damaged six apartment buildings, four private houses, and critical infrastructure.

The Zaporizhzhia Regional Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal investigation, confirming the weapons as Shahed-type strike drones—the same Iranian-designed aircraft Russia has used in hundreds of attacks across Ukraine.

Earlier on 5 September, Russian forces killed a 56-year-old woman with an FPV drone in the same region. Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces launched 476 strikes across 15 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, damaging homes and farm buildings.

Emergency services are preparing repair work including window boarding and roof restoration once the air raid alert is lifted.