Russia’s strikes across six Ukrainian oblasts on the day of the ceasefire

Russia launched 27 drones overnight on 10 May and struck at least six oblasts during the 9-10-11 May "ceasefire" announced by the US president and confirmed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to regional military administrations, one person was killed and at least 25 civilians were injured — among them four children — with infrastructure damaged in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.

Casualties during the first day of the ceasefire, 9 May

Across Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kherson oblasts, 19 people were injured by Russian shelling, the three regional military administrations report.

In Donetsk Oblast, four civilians were wounded — two in Druzhkivka and one each in Kostiantynivka and Dobropillia.

Kharkiv Oblast recorded eight wounded, two of them children. In Kharkiv itself, women aged 74, 70, and 32 and two 8-year-old boys sustained acute stress reactions, according to the regional administration. In Stetskivka, two men aged 37 and 43 and a 36-year-old woman were wounded.

Seven people, including one child, were wounded in Kherson Oblast. Russian forces hit critical and social infrastructure, damaging a multi-storey residential building and eight private homes, the administration reports. Within the oblast, two civilians were wounded in further drone attacks on Kherson and the surrounding hromada, the Kherson City Military Administration reports on Facebook. A 19-year-old man was hospitalised after a strike in Kherson's Korabelnyi district with a blast injury, shrapnel wounds to his right shoulder, multiple grazing wounds to his upper limbs, and acubarotrauma; he was later discharged for outpatient treatment. In the village of Komyshany in Kherson hromada, a 62-year-old woman sustained a mine-blast injury, a traumatic amputation of her left arm, and shrapnel wounds to her leg, and was taken to hospital in serious condition.

Zaporizhzhia Oblast bore the heaviest fire of the day. According to the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, Russian forces carried out 780 strikes on 33 settlements over 24 hours, killing one person and wounding three in attacks on the Zaporizhzhia and Polohy districts. Of those strikes, 598 were UAV strikes — mostly FPV drones. Russian forces also fired eight MLRS salvoes at Huliaipole district, Novoandriivka, Shcherbaky, Stepnohirsk, and Pavlivka, and conducted 174 artillery strikes on settlements including Stepnohirsk, Prymorske, Stepove, Huliaipole, Zaliznychne, Shcherbaky, Novoandriivka, Novodanylivka, Mala Tokmachka, Charivne, Bilohiria, Varvarivka, Dobropillia, Pryluky, Hirke, and Staroukrainka.

In Sumy Oblast, a Russian drone hit a private car in Znob-Novhorodske hromada on 9 May, wounding a 47-year-old man, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reports. The same administration reports that a 46-year-old man wounded on 3 May in Hlukhiv hromada — when a Russian drone hit a grain truck — has died in hospital. Over the day, Russian forces carried out more than 50 strikes on 18 settlements in nine territorial hromadas of the oblast.

Strikes continue overnight and on the morning of 10 May

Overnight on 10 May, Russia launched 27 drones, the Air Force reports.

Russian forces struck Synelnykivskyi district in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, hitting Ukrainska and Bohynivska hromadas, according to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha. Infrastructure was damaged. A 3-year-old girl was hospitalised in moderate condition. Russian forces also attacked Nikopol and Marhanets hromada in the same oblast.

On the morning of 10 May, State Emergency Service rescuers travelling to a settlement in Myrivska hromada of Nikopol district came under Russian attack while responding to an earlier strike. According to the State Emergency Service, Russian forces struck a fire-and-rescue vehicle with a drone, wounding the 23-year-old driver, who was hospitalised.