On June 22, 2025, Russian drone and missile strikes severely damaged buildings at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

According to the university’s vice rector, several buildings on the campus, including the sports complex, several academic buildings and four student dormitories, sustained significant damages. Photos show the damage to the buildings, which included more than 560 shattered windows. There were no reported deaths or injuries on campus.

This incident came one week after the university sustained damage in another Russian air strike (see report).

Scholars at Risk is concerned about military forces targeting higher education facilities in armed conflict. Parties to a conflict may only attack legitimate military targets; where a party suspects that a civilian facility — such as a university building — is being used for military purposes, that party has a duty to take every action practicable to verify that this suspicion is correct before initiating an attack. In the event of such an attack, parties must take all practicable precautions to avoid or minimize damage to civilian facilities. Further, parties must refrain from launching attacks which may be expected to cause disproportionate damage to civilian facilities.

Sources:
*SAR identified this incident in data made publicly available by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/world-watches-as-june-23-attack-hits-major-1750671371.html
https://upc.kpi.ua/12392/kyiv-polytechnic-campus-damaged-in-another-russian-terrorist-attack/#:~:text=In%20particular%2C%20historic%20academic%20building,dormitories%20during%20air%2Draid%20alerts.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/06/23/7518287/