DRONE HITS KYIV 24-STORY. 6 HURT.

KYIV — A Russian UAV struck a tall residential block in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district on the morning of 9 September 2026, damaging upper floors and leaving a rising civilian injury count that city authorities updated within the hour. No deaths are reported in this morning Darnytskyi residential strike. Overnight Kyiv casualty figures from other incidents are a separate ledger.

This Extra is one district, one morning, one civilian high-rise, and a tally that moved. It is not a city-wide wrap. It is not the Starokozache crossing Extra. /war/ukraine-moldova-starokozache-drones stays on its own URL with its own dead. Those two dead are not folded into Darnytskyi’s six hurt.

Six hurt. KCMA 5→6. No death on this morning’s Darnytskyi Extra.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko, via Interfax-Ukraine, said a UAV hit a residential building in Darnytskyi; emergency services were on the scene. He then clarified: a 24-story residential structure, struck at floors 11–12; fire and wall destruction on the 12th floor. CONFIRMED as Klitschko’s clarification. The early 16-story line is superseded by that clarification. This Extra does not keep 16 in the hed.

Klitschko’s first injury print: five hurt, three of them hospitalized. Police, on that five, noted a pregnant woman among them. Those are Klitschko’s five and the police note, not a sixth body and not a name. This Extra does not invent a ward, a trimester, an apartment number, a blast radius, or a witness quote.

A separate police wrap put the building at 22 stories and the hit on the 12th floor. Klitschko’s clarification is 24 stories, floors 11–12. That is a discrepancy. This Extra flags it. It does not invent one floor plan, does not average 22 and 24, and does not pick a favourite storey-count to look tidy. Hed stays 24-story because that is Klitschko’s clarified line. The police 22-story wrap remains on the page as a flagged other count.

By 09:50, the Kyiv City Military Administration, via Ukrinform, said the injured had risen to six. That is the updating tally: KCMA 5→6. Six hurt is the hed. Five was Klitschko’s earlier print. The arrow is the morning update, not a rumour. Six is still injuries. No death is reported on this Darnytskyi Extra. No fatality is invented to fill the gap.

Overnight Kyiv is a different Extra. /war/kyiv-burns-again already holds the 8 September missiles-and-drones wrap, with a death range from that night. Do not fold those deaths into this morning’s 24-story. Do not merge Moldova. The instruction on this slug is exact: no deaths are reported in this morning Darnytskyi residential strike.

CLAIM vs CONFIRMED, kept short. CONFIRMED: single-district morning hit, Darnytskyi civilian high-rise; Klitschko via Interfax-Ukraine — UAV, 24-story, floors 11–12, fire and wall destruction on 12, emergency services on scene, five injured, three hospitalized. CONFIRMED as police note: a pregnant woman among the five. CONFIRMED as KCMA via Ukrinform, 09:50: injured risen to six. FLAGGED, not reconciled: police wrap 22-story / 12th floor versus Klitschko 24-story / 11–12. SUPERSEDED: the early 16-story line. NOT on this Extra: a fatality, a blast radius, an apartment number, a witness quote, Starokozache.

The still is aftermath, SES crews on the block, not a body. PHOTO_CREDIT: SES Ukraine Kyiv (ДСНС КИЄВА) handout via KyivPost. VIDEO=no. It is not an AI scene. It is not a picture of the six. This Extra will not caption it as the moment of impact.

Nailed down, 9 September 2026. PATH /war/kyiv-darnytskyi-drone-highrise-6-hurt. HED: DRONE HITS KYIV 24-STORY. 6 HURT. Beat WAR. Angle: single-district morning hit on a civilian high-rise, updating tally. Distinct from /war/kyiv-burns-again and /war/ukraine-moldova-starokozache-drones. No death invented. No X post. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent counts.

DESK_ID kyiv-darnytskyi-drone-highrise-6-hurt. Canonical /war/kyiv-darnytskyi-drone-highrise-6-hurt. Angle: single-district morning hit on a civilian high-rise, updating tally. Not merged with /war/ukraine-moldova-starokozache-drones. Klitschko via Interfax-Ukraine: UAV, Darnytskyi, 24-story, floors 11–12, fire and wall destruction on 12, emergency services on scene, five injured, three hospitalized; early 16-story line superseded. Police note: pregnant woman among the five. Flagged discrepancy: police wrap 22-story / 12th floor — not merged into one floor plan. KCMA via Ukrinform 09:50: injured risen to six. No fatality, blast radius, apartment number, or witness quote invented. Photo: SES Ukraine Kyiv (ДСНС КИЄВА) handout via KyivPost. VIDEO=no. Distinct from /war/kyiv-burns-again. No X post. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent deaths.