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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:05:03 GMT
Russian overnight attacks on Oct. 21 killed two elderly residents in Kharkiv region and affected 11 others, including two children. Strikes also hit Kremenchuk, Kyiv, Mykolaiv and Chernihiv regions. Ukraine reported 98 drones and six missiles launched overnight, with 58 drones intercepted or suppressed.
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:53:30 GMT
Russian drone attacks, air raid alerts and power outages are reshaping daily life for families in Ukraine’s capital. AFP follows 44-year-old mother of three Anastasiia Zhmutska as she navigates sleepless nights, disrupted school schedules, dangerous journeys and the constant responsibility of keeping her children safe.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:22:37 GMT
The US restored ballistic missile warnings after a week of silence and Rubio says Starlink is fixed while Kyiv says it still cuts out above 161 km/h, as Ukraine hit a Druzhba diesel tank and Moscow lifted its fuel export ban after US sanctions relief.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:09:28 GMT
Russian forces struck four districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region over 70 times on Tuesday, Oct. 20, killing two men and injuring seven people. According to the Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, the casualties came in a strike on warehouses near Dnipro, while drone and artillery fire also hit the Synelynkove, Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:39:47 GMT
Trump criticized Zelenskyy’s approach to peace negotiations on the same day a Russian drone killed six people, including a 14-month-old girl, in Kharkiv Oblast. Meanwhile, gaps in advance warnings for Russian ballistic attacks on Kyiv have raised further concerns about US support.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:51:00 GMT
Russian forces struck an operating room in Kyiv’s Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology on Tuesday, Oct. 20, injuring one patient, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said. The strike marks the second time Russia targeted the heart center that serves patients nationwide, after a September 2025 strike killed two people there.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:40:00 GMT
Russian drones struck Kyiv Tuesday afternoon, damaging medical facilities and scattering debris across several districts. The city’s military administration reported five people injured by 5 p.m., with the attack still underway. The Kyiv City Council denied reports that the North Bridge itself had been hit, while warning of traffic disruption near the crossing.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:32:00 GMT
A 36-year-old woman and three children have been injured following a Russian attack on the city of Kherson on the afternoon of 20 October.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:04:00 GMT
A Russian strike has hit the Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology in Kyiv for the second time, destroying an operating theatre and injuring one patient.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:54:00 GMT
An energy facility in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district has been hit. The metro was briefly suspended due to a power outage but has since resumed operation.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT
Two people have been injured and a fire broke out at a logistics complex due to a Russian drone strike on Kyiv Oblast on 20 October.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:46:07 GMT
A Russian drone strike killed two children and four adults, while 15 people, including seven children, were injured, a local official said.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:42:00 GMT
The Russians fitted an armoured recovery vehicle with electronic warfare equipment and anti-drone cages, but it was still hit by Ukraine’s Raid regiment. The vehicle was used to recover and repair damaged tanks and other heavy equipment.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:02:00 GMT
Emergency services have responded after Russian drone debris hit the top floor of a medical facility in Solomianskyi district amidst ongoing air attacks on Kyiv.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:34:00 GMT
The Oldi store in Zhytomyr at 9 Vitruka Street has temporarily closed following a Russian attack.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:05:00 GMT
Russian attack has targeted Kramatorsk, damaging three multi-story residential buildings and causing multiple civilian casualties.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:43:11 GMT
Poland scrambled military aircraft twice on Oct. 18 as Russia carried out air attacks on Ukraine, with alerts sent to residents of the Lublin and Subcarpathian regions. The alerts were lifted after the threat passed. The deployments came as Russian forces attacked western Ukraine, including a drone strike near Lviv that set a warehouse building on fire.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:39:47 GMT
A fire was reported at the Nikolskoye station in Russia’s Tambov region after monitoring channels and Astra reported a drone attack. Russia claimed it downed 136 Ukrainian drones overnight, while Astra reported damage to a major building in occupied Donetsk.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:28:00 GMT
Media identified the facility as a Transneft linear production and dispatch station, which is a key transit node along the Druzhba oil pipeline.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:55:00 GMT
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has reported that a drone crash in the Holosiivskyi district near a petrol station killed one person and injured six others.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:51:00 GMT
Oleksandr Hanzha, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, says Russian forces attacked Dnipro on 20 October. The number of people injured and the full extent of the damage remain unclear.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:07:00 GMT
Russian forces launched a series of drone attacks on Izium overnight, damaging houses and the city council’s education department building and sparking four fires.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:29:00 GMT
The death toll from a Russian attack on a production and storage building in Kyiv Oblast has risen to three. Firefighters have extinguished the fire, but search and rescue operations are continuing.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:13:00 GMT
Russian forces have targeted 52 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast with over 600 drones and dozens of airstrikes, damaging homes and infrastructure.
Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:15:00 GMT
A Russian drone hit a residential building in the Zarichnyi district of Sumy at around 02:00 on 20 October. Emergency services are working at the scene as officials assess the damage.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:29:36 GMT
Russian forces struck the Dnipropetrovsk region over 20 times with drones and artillery on Monday, Oct. 19, killing two people and injuring 10, including a 15-year-old boy. The attacks came as regional authorities continue preparing for the upcoming winter and possible power outages by adding more than 125 megawatts (MW) of alternative generation this year to keep heat and water running.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:29:12 GMT
A Russian Shahed drone struck a park near an ordinary café in Kharkiv region, killing six people, including children, and wounding 14 others, six of them children, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He called the attack "absolute savagery", <a href="https:/
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:07:00 GMT
The ice rink and cinema at Kyiv's Cosmo Multimall shopping centre, formerly known as Kosmopolit, resumed operations less than 24 hours after the Russian attack.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:40:59 GMT
Kyiv is planning to restore a full metro service between Lisova and Akademmistechko on the evening of Monday, Oct. 19, with trains bypassing the damaged Chernihivska station. To offset the disruption, the capital has added 15 buses along the routes - No. 1-M and 118, Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:38:00 GMT
Andrii Biletskyi says Russia has abandoned its planned advance towards Barvinkove after Ukrainian forces destroyed a bridgehead and defeated the 144th Division.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:35:00 GMT
Andrii Biletskyi, Commander of the 3rd Army Corps, has said that the offensive operation near Lyman was named Vivaldi because it was initially planned to have four stages. The idea came from two officers in the corps, one of whom was killed and the other seriously wounded.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:30:26 GMT
Today, October 19, at around 16:30, Russian forces attacked the grounds of the central park in the settlement of Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv district, with a "Geran-3"-type drone. Two women and an infant were killed, and 15 more people, including seven minors, were injured. Data on casualti
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:49:00 GMT
Serhii Honcharov, an emergency medical technician, was killed in a Russian airstrike on Kherson on 17 October while saving injured civilians.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:41:00 GMT
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has announced that a full service on the red line between the Lisova and Akademmistechko stations will resume this evening following a Russian attack.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:23:00 GMT
Prime Minister Koretskyi said Russia is increasingly focusing on Kyiv’s water supply and urged residents to prepare for difficult conditions this winter. Russian attacks continue to damage energy infrastructure: Kyiv’s three main combined heat and power plants stopped generating electricity, and a recent nationwide attack damaged more than 10 energy facilities and left at least 550,000 households without power.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:56:00 GMT
Ukraine’s General Staff says the strikes also hit Russian drone operators, an artillery position and a logistics depot, as well as troop clusters in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts on 18-19 October.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:11 GMT
Massive strikes overnight hit the capital Kyiv, and damaged power stations, killing at least one person and cutting power to hundreds of thousands.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:58:58 GMT
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied any pause in intelligence-sharing and pointed to a software problem in Ukraine’s early-warning system a few nights earlier.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:39:32 GMT
Kyiv’s Cosmo Multimall was damaged during Russia’s overnight attack on the capital on Monday, Oct. 19, according to the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office. The mall’s administration had not publicly detailed the extent of the damage or its plans for reopening. The team at the Zviropolis contact zoo inside the mall said all of its animals were alive and being evacuated.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:09:00 GMT
Oleksandr Vilkul has reported that a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih's Pokrovskyi district killed two men and injured seven, including a 15-year-old boy.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:42:00 GMT
The Shalett ice rink in Kyiv has sustained significant damage as a result of another Russian attack.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:13:52 GMT
Zelensky said Ukraine received no advance warning from partners before Russia launched 16 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the region. The overnight attacks damaged more than 10 energy facilities and left at least 550,000 households without electricity.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:52:43 GMT
Overnight into today, October 19, Russia carried out a massed attack against Ukraine. The aggressor state used 16 ballistic missiles and more than two hundred drones, including jet-powered Shaheds. The enemy’s main targets were energy infrastructure and critical infrastructure. Ukrain
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:45:00 GMT
The Consultative and Diagnostic Centre of Kyiv Hospital No. 6 has halted operations after a Russian attack blew out 200 windows and damaged medical equipment.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:24:48 GMT
A Russian ballistic missile attack destroyed a Datagroup data center in Kyiv overnight, leaving its equipment and infrastructure beyond repair. The strike killed one person and injured eight others, heavily damaged a nearby shopping mall amid reports that Kyiv received no advance warning of the incoming missiles.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:01:00 GMT
Russia has launched 16 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and energy facilities across 11 oblasts, leaving 550,000 families without power, according to President Zelenskyy.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT
Russian forces launched a combined missile and drone attack on Kyiv Oblast, damaging homes and infrastructure in Bucha and Vyshhorod districts. Three people are missing and six were injured.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:54:36 GMT
Russian forces attacked Kyiv and several other regions, damaging a metro station on the capital's left bank, killing one person and wounding eight in the city, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko and the State Emergency Service, UATV English</
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:39:00 GMT
Ukraine's General Staff has reported 204 engagements along the frontline over 24 hours, with heavy Russian assaults focused on Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka.
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:27:00 GMT
Overnight Russian attacks have targeted Kyiv, leaving the Cosmo Multimall with collapsed floor slabs and roof destruction on Vadym Hetman Street.