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Russian Strikes Kill at Least Nine, Wound Over 30 in Kyiv

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In Short: Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least nine people and wounded over 30 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least nine people and wounded over 30 in Kyiv, Ukraine, according to reports from multiple international outlets.

The BBC (United Kingdom) reported that two people were killed and 21 injured in a missile strike on an apartment block in Kyiv, while Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed two deaths and 21 injuries from a missile strike on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera (Qatar) reported that the strikes killed nine people and wounded 33 others, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warning that Ukraine had run out of interceptor missiles for its US Patriot air defense systems.

Arabnews (Saudi Arabia) reported that Russian and Ukrainian strikes killed at least 16 people over the last 24 hours, with the war still raging in its fifth year.

Ukrinform (Ukraine) reported that Russian drone strikes killed one person and wounded two in Pavlohrad, while Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated that Russian drone and missile attacks killed two people and injured at least 43 as of 5:00 p.m. local time.

The BBC (United Kingdom) and Al Jazeera (Qatar) reported that the strikes damaged energy infrastructure and shrouded the capital in smoke, with fires breaking out across Kyiv and power outages reported in some areas.

The Ukrainian military reported that two people were killed and six wounded in Russian attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, while Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed that Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv’s CHP-4 power plant and a nine-story residential building, killing at least three people and injuring 26, including an eight-year-old child.

Al Jazeera (Qatar) reported that Russian strikes launched against Ukraine overnight included 27 ballistic missiles and only one was intercepted, with President Zelenskyy stating that their targets were consistently defined facilities that sustain the war effort.

The Kyiv Post (Ukraine) reported that Russian forces targeted all three of Kyiv’s municipal combined heat and power (CHP) plants in an overnight attack on Oct. 13-14, with Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi reporting the damage.

The BBC (United Kingdom) and Al Jazeera (Qatar) reported that the strikes were the second major attack on Kyiv this week, with President Zelenskyy calling it a “vile strike” and an “ostentatious disrespect” to US President Donald Trump's peace effort.

Despite the varying reports, all outlets agreed that Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least nine people and wounded over 30 in Kyiv, Ukraine, with significant damage to energy infrastructure and residential buildings.

Background

What's confirmed

• Credit: AP/Dan Bashakov KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles and drones injured at least 19 people overnight in Ukraine's capital and the surrounding region, authorities said.
• Russian drone and missile attacks on Kyiv and nearby areas killed four people, damaged energy infrastructure and shrouded the capital in smoke, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.
• Russian air attacks have killed at least six people in Ukraine and left hundreds of thousands without power, days after United States President Donald Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” in the more-than four year war.
• Russian attacks in recent days on on Ukraine’s two largest cities have again killed and injured civilians, damaged homes and civilian infrastructure, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) said on Tuesday.

What's still developing

• "We are helping them and we are sharing intel," he said.
• "Ukraine hit many sites the day before."
• Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin described Zelenskyy’s open letter proposing the meeting as “boorish,” particularly after a May 22 drone attack on a college dormitory in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region that Moscow said killed 21 and wounded scores of others.
• KYIV: Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, Russian authorities said Sunday.
• October 8, 2026 / 1:13 PM EDT / CBS News At least 30 people were killed Thursday when a Russian guided bomb slammed into a street near two packed city buses in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, according to officials.
• Help rescue animals from the front line — shop our Companion Collection 🐾 At least 10 people were killed and 91 others injured across Ukraine over the past day, as Russia struck Ukraine with 39 missiles and 128 Shahed-type drones, regional authorities said on Oct. 14.
• RIYADH: Twelve people were killed and over 300 more were wounded in Saturday's missile attack targeting King Khalid International Airport (KKIA) in the Kingdom's capital, the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) announced early Sunday.
• (OSV News) — The pastor of Gaza’s only Catholic parish revealed that Pope Leo XIV sent a personal condolence message following an Israeli missile strike that killed five people, including a Christian mother and daughter.
• The cruise missile strike killed 12 people and injured more than 300, according to Saudi authorities Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned a deadly Houthi missile attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, expressing condolences to Saudi Arabia in a rare public statement as the Iran-backed Yemeni rebels escalate their attacks on the kingdom.
• On Friday, US President Donald Trump said that talks were ongoing, but that Washington had not yet agreed to the proposal, and had to be “very careful about letting somebody build them”, despite initially saying earlier this month that he had agreed to give the Ukrainians a licence.
• Ukraine’s largest steel company, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, said on Sept. 25 that it cannot restart steel production amid a surge in Russian strikes on factories, as the embattled sector calls for more domestic and international support to prevent its total collapse.
• October 11, 2026 / 10:37 PM EDT / AP North Korea on Monday fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea's military said, adding to a recent streak of weapons demonstrations that has heightened tensions during a prolonged freeze in diplomacy.

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• Kyiv Postlink
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• RTE.ielink
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Libertylink
• TRT Worldlink
• The Moscow Timeslink
• Новини про права людиниlink
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• Arabnewslink
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• Kyivindependentlink
• Associated Press — video link