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COLUMN: Day Eight in Kyiv: The Bottling Plant Is on Fire
Maxime Marquette

Primary Sources:

Kyiv Regional Military Administration, morning report by Tymour Tkatchenko: two injured—a man struck by shrapnel in the Boryspil district and a woman suffering from acute stress in the Obukhiv district; warehouses, an administrative building, stores, and street infrastructure damaged; September 3, 2026

Coca-Cola HBC Ukraine, Velyka Dymerka plant profile: Cenomanian wells at 220 meters and Jurassic wells at 390 meters; ISO 9001, PAS 223, and FSSC 22000 certifications; annual audit

Coca-Cola HBC Ukraine, Armenia, and Moldova, bottling group overview: over 28,000 employees, 28 countries, three continents

UkraineInvest, Ukrainian government agency: Coca-Cola in Ukraine since 1992, first plant in Lviv in 1994, plant in the Brovary district in operation since 1998, more than 1,500 employees at the main site, $466 million in foreign direct investment, 40 types of beverages, 6% of Ukraine’s non-alcoholic beverage exports, June 1, 2023

Secondary Sources:

Kyiv Independent, Russian strike on the Coca-Cola plant on the eighth consecutive day of attacks on Kyiv, six injured including a 12-year-old girl, six air raid alerts since midnight, no response from a company representative prior to publication, September 3, 2026

Kyiv Independent, national toll of 5 dead and 67 injured as of 12:18 p.m., breakdown by region, drones over western regions, September 3, 2026

Kyiv Independent, explosions in Kyiv on the seventh consecutive night, comments by Vitali Klitschko, air raid alert in Ternopil, no information on damage, September 2, 2026

Kyiv Post, six injured, including a 12-year-old girl in Kyiv; four injured at 5:10 p.m. and six more at 5:50 p.m.; three hospitalized; Holosiivskyi and Sviatochynskyi districts; 163 drones detected, 135 shot down, September 3, 2026

NV, Ukrainian Air Force report: 163 Shahed-type attack drones, about half of which were jet-powered, carrying S8000 Banderol and Gerbera munitions and Parodiya decoys; 135 targets shot down or neutralized at 8:30 a.m.; fifteen locations hit and four with debris, September 3, 2026

Bukvy, six injured in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old girl; four hospitalized, according to Vitali Klitschko; debris found in the Darnytskyi, Holosiivskyi, and Sviatochynskyi districts, September 3, 2026

Proslav, bulletin from the State Emergency Service: the enemy strikes the burning warehouses in the Boryspil district twice more while rescue workers are on the scene; they retreat and then resume operations; no firefighters injured, September 3, 2026

RBC-Ukraine, strikes on the western part of the country: two aircraft destroyed over the Ternopil region according to Taras Pastukh; a 200-square-meter warehouse fire and one truck driver injured in the Khmelnytskyi region according to Serhii Tiourine, September 3, 2026

Fakty, fire at the Coca-Cola Beverages Ukraine plant in Velyka Dymerka, Brovary district; strike on finished-product warehouses; company statement confirming that all employees are safe, September 3, 2026

UNN, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s remarks on the drone strike against the Coca-Cola plant: a clear signal from Russia to the U.S., a promise of asymmetric operations, September 3, 2026

Ukraine Today, drone strike on the finished product warehouses at the Coca-Cola plant in Velyka Dymerka, thick smoke rising above the industrial site, September 3, 2026

Nuremberg 2022, documentation file: Russian bombing of the Coca-Cola plant near Velyka Dymerka on March 9, 2022; building and equipment damaged, according to local media outlet Trybuna-Brovary

Resumption of production at the Coca-Cola plant in Velyka Dymerka in May 2022; power plant and part of the administrative building destroyed in March 2022; production lines intact, according to Andriy Boublyk, May 2022

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