Russian attack on Kyiv and Priluky kills at least 19
Ukraine's air force cites 130 drones, 48 cruise missiles and several ballistic missiles. Most victims are in Priluky, where a five-story apartment block was hit.
Russia attacked Kyiv and about ten other Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones overnight between October 6 and 7, 2026, and Ukrainian authorities report at least 19 people dead. The final toll differs by source: N1 reports at least 19 civilians killed, including four children, and about 60 injured, while Al Jazeera, citing Ukrainian authorities, writes of at least 20 dead.
The hardest-hit city was Priluky in the Chernihiv region in the north of the country, where a missile struck a five-story apartment building. We have already reported on that strike, and this is the overall picture of the whole night.
What was hit in Priluky, Kyiv and Kremenchuk?
In Priluky, according to regional authorities, a missile directly hit a five-story residential building. Emergency services told Al Jazeera that at least 14 people were killed, among them four children, and that about 50 were injured. N1 reports a somewhat lower figure: Interior Minister Ihor Vyhivskyi said a block of apartment buildings was destroyed, that 13 people were killed, including four children, and that about 50 were injured.
In Kyiv, two people were killed in the Darnytskyi district. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said they died in a fire caused by the air attack.
For Kremenchuk in the Poltava region, the figures do not match. N1 reports that, according to the head of the regional military administration, Vitaliy Diakivnych, two people were killed and seven injured. Al Jazeera, citing President Volodymyr Zelensky, says two people died when missiles hit high-rise buildings in Dnipro and Kremenchuk combined, and another two in Oleksandriia. We do not add those two figures together, because it is unclear whether they overlap.
How many aircraft and missiles did Russia launch?
Ukraine’s air force said on Wednesday that Russia launched 130 drones, 48 cruise missiles and an unspecified number of ballistic missiles, and that air defenses shot down 161 targets. These are Ukrainian figures, and there is no independent confirmation. Authorities named Kyiv, Poltava, the Dnipropetrovsk region and Kharkiv as the main targets.
In a social media post, Zelensky said Russia fired 70 missiles, along with drones, in one of the largest attacks since the war began in 2022. He called Ukraine’s energy infrastructure one of the key targets, with the message:
“The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively.”
Ukrainian authorities say residential buildings, industrial plants and infrastructure were damaged. Zelensky singled out ballistic missiles:
“Russian ballistic missiles remain the biggest challenge. Air defense packages are now vital for us.”
The Associated Press, as relayed by N1, writes that Ukraine cannot stop Russian ballistic missiles without ammunition for American Patriot systems, and that because of the war with Iran it is looking around the world for available missiles for those systems.
What does Moscow say?
The Russian Defense Ministry said it carried out a “massive strike” with high-precision weapons launched from land, sea and air, as well as drones, on military-industrial facilities. Among the targets it named were plants of the company Fire Point, where, it claims, Flamingo cruise missiles and medium- and long-range drones are produced and stored. According to the ministry, hits were recorded in Kyiv and in the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Kharkiv regions.
The ministry adds that port infrastructure and ship repair facilities in the Odesa region were also targeted, along with vessels that, in its words, serve the interests of the Ukrainian military. Those claims come only from the Russian side, and Ukrainian authorities do not confirm them as damage that was done.
Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliament’s human rights commissioner, wrote on Telegram:
“Another sleepless night, another act of terror, after which people must still plan their working day despite everything.”
Kyiv has been under constant attack in recent weeks: energy infrastructure, railways and road traffic have been hit, including the bridges connecting the city across the Dnipro, and sirens warn residents to take cover in basements, shelters and metro stations.
Ukrainian retaliation and the Black Sea
In a separate post, Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had struck four Russian targets in the past 24 hours, among them two oil facilities and a training ground in the Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions, along with a response in the Black Sea. He called the strikes a just response because, as he explained, those facilities help Russia finance and wage the war. According to N1, Russia has not commented on those claims so far.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and, according to a statement from the Turkish presidential office, asked for safe navigation in the Black Sea, repeating an offer to mediate direct talks between Russia and Ukraine. The call followed a drone strike on two merchant ships on Tuesday morning: one caught fire and the other sank. Bulgarian authorities said they suspended the search after no survivors were found on the ship that sank off their coast.
