Russian missile devastates Pryluky apartment block, killing 22 and wounding dozens

A Russian Kh-101 missile struck a five-storey apartment building in the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky on the morning of October 7 while many residents were still asleep. The attack killed 22 people, among them five children, and left 54 injured, including seven youngsters. President Volodymyr Zelensky called the strike a “birthday gift” from Putin.

Families devastated included Viktoria Bondarenko’s household, where a grandmother, her daughter and grandson perished; railway worker Oleksandr Ivanchenko, his wife Yulia and their two children; and Daria Maksiuta, her husband Oleksandr and their infant son. Police officer Oleh Malysh and his mother-in-law also died, while other relatives remain hospitalized. Employees of Ukrainian Railways and the oil firm Ukrnafta were among the dead, prompting Pryluky to declare three days of mourning.