Russian missile strike hits Kyiv power plant, killing one and wounding dozens
Overnight Russian attacks on Kyiv killed one person and injured more than 20, striking a key heating and electricity plant.
Russian forces launched a missile barrage against Kyiv during the early hours, targeting the Darnytska CHP-4 combined-heat plant that supplies the city with electricity and heating. The attack ignited a major blaze in a nearby apartment building, resulting in one fatality and more than 20 injuries. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the strike was a deliberate violation of the "energy ceasefire" announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, noting that Russian strikes on energy sites have continued despite the truce.
Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, confirmed extensive power outages throughout the capital and surrounding region. Russia, meanwhile, claimed to have downed 900 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 180 near Moscow, though the Kremlin has not acknowledged the ceasefire breach.
Why it matters
The attack threatens Kyiv's energy supply and highlights ongoing violations of a U.S.-promoted ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.
How this story developed
- Sep 1 Russia multiplies jet-powered Shahed drone strikes fivefold in one month
- Oct 7 Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi reported that the attacks resulted in 28 deaths.
- Oct 8 Ukrainian drones hit a Yandex data centre in Ryazan, causing a fire and shutting down operations.
- Oct 8 Yandex Cloud confirmed power‑supply issues and issued a customer advisory following the incident.
- 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 9 A drone strike in Kaluga disabled several data centre modules.
- Oct 10 Russian guided bombs hit a Zaporizhzhia apartment building, killing four civilians and injuring four.
- Oct 11 Yandex’s Vladimir data centre was shut down after a drone strike.
- Oct 11 Power outages now affect additional neighborhoods in Kyiv.
- Oct 12 The Digital Development Ministry said it is devising protective solutions for critical infrastructure after the series of drone attacks.
- Oct 13 Zelensky appealed to NATO for concrete defence packages.
- Oct 14 A viral screenshot showing a sharp fall in Yandex bot traffic prompted experts to explain that the decline was due to routine web‑crawler requests, not a coordinated silencing of bots.
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