Russia's missile and drone barrage kills 10 and injures 91 across Ukraine
Russian missile and drone attacks over the past day killed at least ten people and wounded 91 across Ukraine, with Kyiv hit by ballistic missiles for a second night.
Russia unleashed a wave of 39 ballistic missiles and 128 Shahed-type drones on Ukraine in the past day, targeting energy facilities and civilian areas in Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast and Kharkiv among other regions. Kyiv authorities confirmed four fatalities and 25 injuries, including three women and a 7-year-old girl hit in a nine-storey residential building. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attacks used Iskander-M, KN-23, S-400, Zircon and Onyx missiles and left 600,000 people without electricity.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported neutralising four missiles and 115 drones. Governors in Kyiv, Rivne, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk and Chernihiv detailed additional injuries, deaths and damage to homes, schools and critical infrastructure, bringing the total toll to at least ten dead and 91 wounded.
Why it matters
The attacks show the ongoing intensity of Russia's assault on Ukraine's civilian population and critical infrastructure.
How this story developed
- Sep 1 Russia multiplies jet-powered Shahed drone strikes fivefold in one month
- Oct 6 The raid reached the Volodarsk oil depot near Moscow, igniting a fire.
- Oct 7 A large‑scale missile and drone barrage hit Kyiv in the early hours.
- Oct 7 Russian air strikes overnight hit Kiev, Kirovohrad, Chernihiv and Poltava regions, leaving at least 12 dead and more than 40 injured.
- Oct 7 Two civilian deaths reported in Kyiv and simultaneous strikes hit other Ukrainian cities on Putin's birthday.
- Oct 7 Ukrainian air defenses reported downing 161 of the incoming missiles and drones.
- Oct 7 Zelensky described the strikes as a “birthday gift” to Putin.
- Oct 7 Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi reported that the attacks resulted in 28 deaths.
- Oct 8 Death toll in Kramatorsk reported at least 33.
- Oct 8 A Russian strike hit two buses in Kramatorsk; UN human‑rights chief Volker Türk said he was "consterné" and the UN reported at least 85 dead and 346 injured civilians since Monday.
- Oct 9 Zelensky publicly accused the United States of insufficient support after the Kramatorsk bus bombing.
- Oct 10 Russian guided bombs hit a Zaporizhzhia apartment building, killing four civilians and injuring four.
- Oct 11 Power outages now affect additional neighborhoods in Kyiv.
- Oct 13 Zelensky appealed to NATO for concrete defence packages.
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