Russia kills 11 in strikes on Ukraine

MOSCOW
Russia fired 70 missiles and also drones in one of its biggest strikes at Ukraine, targeting the Ukrainian energy sector and killing at least 11 people across the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. “One of the key targets was our energy infrastructure. The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively,” Zelenskiy said on the Telegram app. “Russian ballistic missiles remain the greatest challenge. And air defence packages for us right now are a vital necessity.”
“Ukraine has once again been hit by Russian missiles throughout the night,” Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner for human rights, said on the Telegram app. “Another sleepless night, another act of terror, after which people still have to plan their working day despite everything,” he added.
Russia launched 130 drones, 48 cruise missiles and also ballistic missiles to attack Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said. Air defence units downed 161 targets, it said on Telegram. Kyiv and Poltava in central Ukraine, and the southeastern region of Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv in the northeast were the focus of the Russian attacks, the Ukrainian air force said.
missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 7, 2026.— Reuters Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had carried out a “massive strike” on military-industrial facilities in Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions, using high-precision land-, sea- and air-launched weapons, as well as drones.
It said the targets included sites where Ukrainian defence company Fire Point manufactures and stores its Flamingo cruise missiles and medium- and long-range drones in Kyiv as well as regions of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Kharkiv. Last week, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had fired its first domestically made ballistic missile in combat, produced by Fire Point.