5 News' footage of Kyiv's burning Academy of Sciences opens twelvefold
Occupants of the 19th-century building climbed out of first- and second-floor windows during a daytime Russian drone strike that killed at least one person.
5 NewsStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 91,378 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (7,858).
People hang on for their lives as building engulfed in flames after drone attack | 5 News
A short 5 News report from Kyiv passed forty thousand views within its first day, a start close to twelve times what a new upload on the channel usually manages.
The report covers a Russian drone that hit Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in the capital on Monday. People were seen clinging to the outside of the building as flames spread and black smoke rose, and some escaped through first- and second-floor windows. At least one person was killed and three others were wounded. According to the description, the 19th-century building stands near the German embassy, the National Opera and St Volodymyr's Cathedral, and a second drone struck a private medical center nearby, killing at least one more person.
5 News is the online home of Channel 5's weekday bulletin. ITN, which also makes the news for ITV and Channel 4, launched 5 News in 1997 and has produced it again since 2012. The channel posts the day's stories as they air on television, and most of them begin far more quietly than this one.
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- Channel
- 5 News
- Subscribers
- 201,000
- Video published
- September 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 41,311 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 91,378
The numbers
The figures set this report's first day beside what a new 5 News upload usually draws.
