Russian Drone Hits Kyiv Security Service HQ, Wounding Seven

A Russian drone struck the headquarters of Ukraine's SBU security service in Kyiv on Friday, marking the first direct daytime hit on the building in four and a half years of war and highlighting Ukraine's severe air defense shortages. President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed retaliation for the attack. Seven people were injured in the strike, which occurred on the ninth consecutive day of Russian bombardments against the capital. Zelensky said the drone was aimed directly at the office of SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad, and he ordered a concrete, equivalent response against Russian forces. The attack follows days of near-continuous strikes that have killed at least 53 people in Kyiv and the metropolitan area. The SBU building sits in Kyiv's historic center opposite the UNESCO-listed Saint Sophia Cathedral. The strike came as US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to visit Moscow and Kyiv this weekend for peace talks, with Ukraine's foreign minister saying the attack demonstrates Russia's rejection of diplomacy.