Russia hit Ukraine overnight on Thursday, 22 October, with missiles and 210 drones. Kyiv was hit hardest, with one person killed and 22 injured, according to the latest reports. In the Kharkiv region, the mass strike on the region killed one more person, and a strike on a market in Lozova left at least 17 injured.
Kyiv
Ballistic strikes hit six districts of the capital from Wednesday evening. One person was killed and 22 were injured, four of them children. Earlier reports put the number of injured at 15, including two 15-year-olds.
In Dniprovskyi district one person was killed and a child was taken to hospital. Five more people were hurt. Houses and cars were damaged, and residential and non-residential buildings caught fire. In Pecherskyi district eight people were injured, three of them children. Buildings, ambulances and a monastery were damaged. An ambulance station and six ambulances were also hit. No medics were hurt.
In Obolonskyi district two people were injured, and the fires have been put out. In Holosiivskyi district six people were hurt when a non-residential building was hit. In Sviatoshynskyi district a non-residential building and a restaurant complex caught fire. The fire, which covered 1,100 sq m, has been put out. In Darnytskyi district a transport facility was hit, and no one was hurt.
The metro was also damaged near the South Bridge. On the green line, trains are for now running only between Syrets and Vydubychi and between Osokorky and Chervony Khutir, and they may run less often. Inspections and repairs will continue after the air raid alert ends.
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Kharkiv region
The worst-hit place is the village of Lymanivka in Lozova district, where a drone hit a house. One person was killed and nine were injured, two of them children.
In Lozova itself, the strike hit the local market. Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said at least 17 civilians were injured. Medics are treating them, and crews are still clearing the debris.
In Izium a drone hit a residential area. Two houses caught fire and three people were injured. In Kharkiv, the Slobidskyi, Osnovianskyi and Kholodnohirskyi districts were hit. The balcony of an 11-storey office building, two outbuildings, four trucks, a trailer and a car caught fire, and one person was injured. In the village of Shevchenkove in Kupiansk district, a house, a garage and a medical facility caught fire. Early reports say no one was hurt there.
Missiles and drones over 12 regions
Russia used Iskander-M, S-400, Zircon and Onyx missiles and 210 Shahed attack drones, 110 of them jet-powered. There were hits in 32 places, and debris fell in 8 more.
By 9am, air defences had shot down or jammed 181 drones, 87 of them jet-powered. Another 10 were still in the air, and air defence crews were still working.
President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote that Russia fired 21 missiles at Kyiv in three waves and that 12 regions were hit. He said that at that point two people had been killed and 34 injured. The strike came after talks in Moscow, where White House envoy Steve Witkoff called Putin a "humanist". "Right after the latest talks, Russia carried out a demonstrative strike," Zelensky said. He said Moscow needs to face real pressure: stronger air defence, fast delivery of missiles, and sanctions for the war.
Russia has been fighting a full-scale war against Ukraine since February 2022.
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