Russian terror strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid cause widespread power outages
Emergency power cuts across seven regions lasted during the morning, leaving millions of Ukrainian without electricity, but were lifted later in the day.
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Russia bombs hospital housing over 100 patients, keeps targeting power grid in Kirovohrad Oblast and Kharkiv
The guided bomb explosion injured six people and caused serious damage inside a Kharkiv hospital. Suburban trains were also disrupted in Kirovohrad Oblast due to infrastructure damage.
Russia launches 1,360 bombs and 92 missiles on Ukraine in single week, while global attention is drawn to Middle East
While Israel and Hamas negotiate a pause in hostilities, Russian forces intensify strikes across Ukraine, hitting civilians and energy infrastructure with unprecedented volume.
Russian terrorist attack targets Ukrainian energy grid: two workers killed, thousands left without power as winter nears
On the night of 11 October, Russian forces used a double-strike tactic to attack energy workers and firefighters who came to extinguish fires.
Ukraine’s FM calls Russia “worse than Hamas” as 465 drones strike energy grid on attack anniversary
Sybiha: Even Hamas agreed to ceasefire talks, Moscow rejects all diplomacy
Russian double-tap strike targets rescue workers in Zaporizhzhia
Russia launched a massive aerial bombardment against energy facilities and civilian targets in multiple cities across Ukraine on 10 October.
Russia hits firefighters mid-rescue in Chernihiv, kills five civilians in Sumy and Kherson oblasts, targets Odesa port
At least 17 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine.
“The world is simply watching”: Russian strike kills 15-year-old Anastasia, her mom and grandparents in their Lviv Oblast home
Rescuers found the bodies of 15-year-old Anastasia Hrytsiv and another relative in severely damaged condition.
Russian drones hunt civilian cars in Kharkiv Oblast, kill two
Separate strikes within two hours target vehicles on roads in heavily contested Kupiansk district.
Another death in Kherson: Russian artillery kills 77-year-old as daily terror continues
Prosecutors open war crime investigation as daily bombardment from Russian forces continues across liberated city.
Russian “air terror” kills family of four in western Lviv Oblast while Poland scrambles jets amid massive attack near its border
On the night of 5 October, western regions faced the heaviest strikes despite being typically considered safer than frontline areas of Ukraine closer to Russia.
Newlywed Ukrainian couple planned Christmas with Sinatra—Russia made her widow instead
Bohdana and Yaroslav had just married and dreamed of listening to records together this holiday season. He was killed on 30 September in a Russian drone strike on Dnipro.
Russia hit Ukraine’s railways overnight — and kills a civilian woman in northeastern Ukraine
Russian drones and missiles struck railway infrastructure in Odesa and Konotop while a missile hit Balakliia, killing a woman and injuring 16, including a 4-year-old..
Turkish truck driver and father of three among four killed in Russian 12-hour bombardment of Kyiv
Tevfik Bektaş had completed a cargo delivery to the Ukrainian capital and was waiting in a customs zone when Russian forces launched an assault involving nearly 500 strike drones and over 40 missiles.
“We lost everything”: Russia hits same Kharkiv civilian market for eighth time destroying businesses and leaving people in debt
Four guided aerial bombs hit two Kharkiv districts overnight, igniting fires at trading pavilions at Barabashovo market and damaging private homes and garage cooperatives, while at least six people were injured.
They were 6 and 4, asleep in their beds—then a Russian drone came for them, their parents, and their unborn twin siblings
Rescuers pulled the bodies of two boys, along with their parents, from the ruins in Chernechchyna, Sumy Oblast.
Hundreds of unmanned aircraft, dozens of rockets — Russia kills a 12-year-old, three other civilians, injures dozens (updated)
Reports on the dead and injured from come from Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia. Among Russia's targets was a Kyiv hospital and Fastiv bread plant.
Russia targets energy and railway infrastructure in frontline regions leaving thousands civilians without electricity and delaying trains
Russian drone strikes on 27 September also hit residential areas and shops. One woman was injured in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Russia’s drones hit Ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure again as daily strikes continued
Several civilians were killed or injured in overnight strikes that also caused power outages on railway sections, delaying several trains and forcing passengers into shelters.
“I didn’t think at my age I’d face this”: 82-year-old man describes Russian bombing of his home
Yuriy Babak from Zaporizhzhia shared that Russian bomb attack felt as if his roof was lifted up and down, while another civilian described how a chandelier fell right in front of her as she was going to rest.