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Russian drone and artillery attacks hit Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kherson Regions

Russian drone and artillery attacks hit Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kherson Regions
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Russian forces carried out a series of overnight drone attacks across Ukraine, striking Kyiv, as well as the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kherson regions. The attacks caused multiple injuries, fires, and significant damage to residential and infrastructure facilities, according to local authorities and the State Emergency Service (SES).

Kyiv and Kyiv Region

Seven people were injured in the capital following a nighttime drone attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on Telegram.

“Seven people were injured in the capital after the enemy’s attack last night. Five of them have been hospitalized, and two are receiving outpatient treatment,” Klitschko said, as cited by Ukrinform.

The mayor noted that debris from downed drones caused fires in three residential buildings in the Podil district. The blast wave shattered windows in several buildings, including a local school where more than 40 windows were blown out, and a nearby kindergarten. Several cars caught fire in residential courtyards, and debris also fell near a synagogue.

In the Obolon district, windows in a residential building were damaged by the shockwave of a downed drone, Klitschko added.

According to the SES, firefighters in Podil extinguished fires in an apartment on the first floor of a five-story residential building and in several nearby cars. Blazes also broke out in warehouse buildings and the courtyard of another five-story building. One of the district’s business centers sustained damage from falling debris.

In the Desnianskyi district, a Russian drone struck the 21st floor of a 24-story residential building but did not detonate. Another drone hit an unfinished construction site at a separate address.

Kharkiv Region

In the Kharkiv region, a Ukrainian rescuer was killed and five others injured during a repeated Russian attack in the Kupiansk district, the SES reported.

“On the night of October 23, during a combat mission in the Kupiansk district, a true Hero was killed — Chief Master Sergeant of the Civil Protection Service Yurii Petrovych Chystikov, commander of the 43rd State Fire and Rescue Unit,” the statement said.

Chystikov, born in 1975, is survived by his daughter.

The tragedy occurred while rescuers were extinguishing a fire caused by the Russian drone strike in the village of Zelenyi Hai. Russian forces launched a second attack on the same site, killing Chystikov and injuring five of his colleagues.

Dnipropetrovsk Region

Russian forces also struck several districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region — including Nikopol, Pavlohrad, Synelnykove, and Kamianske — over the past 24 hours, according to regional council head Mykola Lukashuk.

Nikopol and the Pokrovska community came under both drone and artillery fire on Wednesday evening and again Thursday morning. Two private houses, an outbuilding, and a gas pipeline were damaged.

Elsewhere, Russian drones targeted infrastructure in the Pavlohrad and Kamianske districts, including a 14-story residential building. Damage was also reported in Synelnykove district.

Kherson Region

In the Kherson region, Russian forces attacked 42 settlements using drones, artillery, and aircraft, injuring 13 civilians, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.

The strikes damaged four apartment buildings, 16 private houses, an administrative building, a cell tower, a store, private vehicles, and agricultural machinery. Critical and social infrastructure were also hit.

Early Thursday morning, Russian forces dropped explosives from a drone onto a cargo truck in Kherson, injuring the driver.
According to the regional administration, the 49-year-old man sustained blast and head injuries, a concussion, and shrapnel wounds to his temple and forearm. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

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