Russian drone strike kills 3, wounds 12 at apartment building in eastern Ukraine
Illustration: Press Pass USAA Russian drone struck a residential building in Synelnykove, in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, on Saturday, killing three people and injuring 12 others, regional Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said.
The drone set a fire on the building's fourth floor and damaged nearby cars and a store, Hanzha said. Among the wounded was an 11-year-old girl. Five of the injured were taken to hospital, with three — two women and one man — in serious condition and undergoing surgery.
The strike was part of a wider wave of overnight attacks: a jet-powered drone killed one person in Kharkiv's Novobavarskyi district, two women were killed in attacks on Nikopol district, and Kharkiv's Epikenter shopping center was destroyed in a separate strike, according to Ukrainian outlets and regional officials. Into Sunday, the exchanges continued — one person was killed and 10 injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of Belgorod, while one person was killed and three wounded in a Russian strike on Kharkiv.
According to the Kyiv Independent, Russia has intensified its aerial bombardments across Ukraine in October, targeting the country's power grid as winter temperatures begin to drop.
Sources: Kyiv Independent (Oct 24–25, 2026); EA WorldView (Oct 25, 2026); Ukrinform (Oct 25, 2026).
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