Archive: still of the January 12, 2025 airstrike in Kyauktaw, Myanmar. This image does not show the September 2026 attack or establish its casualty figures. Chun Nrein / MPA / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 3.0 . Source . Proportional display; no additional crop. The United Nations condemned a reported airstrike near a market in Kyauktaw, Myanmar, and said ongoing violence in Rakhine State makes safe, voluntary returns of refugees and displaced people impossible for now. Local sources cited by Reuters reported about 50 people killed and at least 58 wounded; the toll and responsibility for the attack have not been independently verified at the site. On September 29, the UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson said the attack underscored that conditions in Rakhine do not allow refugees and other displaced people to return safely. The UN condemned the attack, urged all parties to protect civilians and follow international law, and called for unimpeded humanitarian access. The UN Human Rights Chi...

Archive image: an airstrike in Kyauktaw on January 12, 2025. This photograph does not show the September 2026 attack. Image: Chun Nrein/MPA, via Wikimedia Commons , CC BY 3.0 . No modifications. The death toll from an airstrike near a market in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State has risen to 50, according to the Arakan Army and a local aid worker. At least 58 people were wounded, but access restrictions and the absence of a government account prevent full independent verification. An airstrike struck an area near a market in Kyauktaw township, in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, on Monday, September 28. The Arakan Army, the armed group controlling Kyauktaw, blamed Myanmar’s military for the attack. A local aid worker separately provided casualty information to international news organizations. Rescue reports raised the provisional death toll Initial accounts put the death toll at 33. AP later reported at least 49 deaths, citing the Arakan Army and a rescue...

File photo: Headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. Photo by Star61/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Russian jet-powered drones struck Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv and a business center in Dnipro during a new daytime attack. At least five people were killed at the locations detailed by Reuters, while broader Ukrainian casualty totals remained under assessment. A Russian jet-powered drone struck a building belonging to Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv on Monday. At least one person was killed, and Kyiv authorities reported 19 injured across the capital. In Dnipro, another drone struck a business center, killing three people and injuring 19. A separate attack killed one person at a logistics office in Synelnykove, southeast of Dnipro. A pharmaceutical company, petrol stations and a medical facility were also reported hit in Kyiv. Local tolls and the broader casualty count The nationwide casualty total rema...

Archive: Freedom Square in Kharkiv, 2005. Geographic context; this photo does not show the apartment building, the attack, or its damage. Russellcunning at the English-language Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0 . Source . Proportional display; no additional crop. Developing — A Russian guided aerial bomb struck a residential building in Kharkiv early on September 28, 2026, injuring at least 22 people, including children, according to local authorities. The bomb damaged the second and third floors of an apartment building in the Saltivskyi district. Emergency workers, medics and police responded, and Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported the initial injury count. Ukraine’s regional military administration said eight of the 22 reported injured were children, according to Kyiv Post. Of those children, two were hospitalized and six were treated at the scene. The casualty figures reflect information available on September 28 and may have changed afterward. Authorities had not released...