Russia's jet-powered drones bring empty Kyiv supermarket shelves and rattle Ukrainians

Russian forces relentlessly battered Kyiv and cities in the region around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day, leaving some supermarket shelves bare after repeated strikes on warehouses.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2000x1334+0+0/resize/2000x1334!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6b%2F54%2F770bf093450e9106811055b209b3%2Fap26243324317847.jpg' alt='This photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service shows a site of a residential building damaged by a Russian guided bomb in the city center of Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026.'/><p>Russian forces relentlessly battered Kyiv and cities in the region around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day, leaving some supermarket shelves bare after repeated strikes on warehouses.</p><p>(Image credit: Ukrainian Emergency Service via)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=g-s1-141181' />