A Russian drone slammed into a residential building in Kyiv’s Obolon District in the early hours of Oct. 24, injuring two people and starting a fire, the Kyiv City Military Administration said.
The strike on the capital was one piece of a much wider toll. Local authorities reported that Russian attacks across Ukraine killed four people and wounded 78 over the preceding day.
Chernihiv, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk
The worst single incident came on Oct. 23 in Chernihiv. Local officials said a daytime attack there killed one man and injured at least 25 people. An air raid alert sounded at around 1:40 p.m. because of a missile threat, and within minutes Ukraine’s Air Force was tracking drones and a low-cost Banderol cruise missile heading for the city. The Chernihiv City Council said two private businesses were hit but gave no further detail.
In Donetsk Oblast, shelling of a residential area in Kramatorsk killed one person and injured six, three of them children, according to the regional prosecutor’s office. Sloviansk Mayor Vadym Lyakh wrote on Oct. 24 that attacks there the day before had killed a 62-year-old woman and wounded four people.
Other regions
Dnipro lost one resident and had eight injured, while three more people were hurt in the nearby Pidhorodnenska community, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. In Zhytomyr, a drone attack on Oct. 23 injured nine, two of them children, police reported.
Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Synehubov put the number of wounded at seven, including a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy. Homes, businesses and gas stations were damaged or destroyed there, he added.
Russian forces struck residential areas across Kherson Oblast, injuring six people on Oct. 23, the regional military administration reported. Odesa Oblast governor Oleh Kiper said three people were injured after hits on a recreational building, an administrative building and a warehouse.
Sumy Oblast took 40 attacks on 25 settlements. Five people were hurt, and the air alert there ran for more than 18 hours.
The overnight barrage
Russia sent 126 drones against Ukraine overnight, 61 of them jet-powered, the Air Force said. Ukrainian defenses suppressed 101, including 50 of the jet-powered ones.
Those jet-powered models are harder to bring down than the older propeller-driven drones, and Russia increased their production this year. Ukraine, meanwhile, has improved its interception rate over the past month.
Sources
- Russia strikes Kyiv with missiles and drones, damaging residential buildings, injuring six
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- Russian attacks kill 4, injure 78 across Ukraine over past day, as drone strikes Kyiv residential building in the morning
