At least 20 killed as Russia launches ‘massive’ attack on Ukraine

Ukraine’s air force says Russia launched 130 drones, 48 cruise missiles and ballistic missiles in overnight attack.

Fire and smoke rise in the capital Kyiv during a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine on October 7, 2026 [Vladyslav Sode/Reuters]

At least 20 people, including children, have been killed as Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles across Ukraine, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Ukraine’s air force said on Wednesday that Russia launched 130 drones, 48 cruise missiles, and an unspecified number of ballistic missiles in the overnight attack. It added air defence units downed 161 targets.

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Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and Poltava in central Ukraine, the southeastern region of Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv in the northeast were the focus of the Russian attacks, authorities said.

President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said in a social media post Russia had fired 70 missiles and also drones in one of its biggest attacks since Moscow launched the war in 2022.

“One of the key targets was our energy infrastructure. The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively,” Zelenskyy said.

The attacks also damaged residential buildings, industrial facilities, and infrastructure, according to Ukrainian officials.

A resident with a dog looks on at the site of private car garages hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine on October 7, 2026 [Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters]

In Pryluki, in the northern Chernihiv region, a Russian missile slammed into a five-storey residential building, regional authorities said. At least 14 people, including four children, were killed and 50 others wounded, emergency services said.

Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two people were killed in the densely populated Darnytskyi neighbourhood in a fire caused by an air attack.

Two people were killed when missiles hit high-rise buildings in Dnipro and Kremenchuk in central Ukraine, while two others died in Oleksandriya, Zelenskyy said.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces 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.

Targets included sites where the company Fire Point makes and stores Flamingo cruise missiles and medium- and long-range drones in Kyiv, as well as the regions of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, and Kharkiv, it said.

The attacks also targeted port and ship-repair infrastructure in the Odesa region, as well as vessels it said were being used in the interests of Ukraine’s armed forces, the ministry added.

“Ukraine has once again been hit by Russian missiles throughout the night,” Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner for human rights, said on Telegram.

“Another sleepless night, another act of terror, after which people still have to plan their working day despite everything,” he added.

Kyiv has come under relentless bombardment in recent weeks, with Russian air attacks on energy infrastructure, rail and road transport, including the bridges that connect the city over the Dnipro River.

Air raid sirens have sounded almost constantly, urging residents to take cover in basements, shelters and subway stations.

In a separate post, Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces hit four Russian targets over the last 24 hours, including two oil facilities and a training ground in the Perm, Samara, and Astrakhan regions, as well as carrying out a response in the Black Sea.

He called the attacks a “just” response to Moscow’s strikes, and added that the facilities hit helped “Russia finance and wage its brutal war”.

乌克兰空军称，俄罗斯在夜间发动袭击，出动了130架无人机、48枚巡航导弹和弹道导弹。

2026年10月7日，俄罗斯导弹和无人机袭击乌克兰首都基辅，火光冲天，浓烟滚滚。[弗拉迪斯拉夫·索德/路透社]

据乌克兰当局称，俄罗斯向乌克兰境内发射无人机和导弹，造成至少20人死亡，其中包括儿童。

乌克兰空军周三表示，俄罗斯在夜间袭击中出动了130架无人机、48枚巡航导弹和数量不详的弹道导弹。乌克兰空军还补充说，防空部队击落了161个目标。

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当局称，俄罗斯袭击的重点是乌克兰首都基辅、乌克兰中部的波尔塔瓦、东南部的第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克地区以及东北部的哈尔科夫。

俄罗斯总统泽连斯基在社交媒体上发帖称，俄罗斯发射了 70 枚导弹，并出动了无人机，这是自莫斯科在 2022 年发动战争以来规模最大的一次袭击。

泽连斯基说：“其中一个主要目标是我们的能源基础设施。俄罗斯人想给我们造成沉重打击，以示震慑。”

据乌克兰官员称，袭击还破坏了居民楼、工业设施和基础设施。

2026年10月7日，乌克兰基辅，一名居民带着狗，望着被俄罗斯导弹袭击的私人车库现场。[Valentyn Ogirenko/路透社]

据当地政府称，在北部切尔尼戈夫州的普里卢基，一枚俄罗斯导弹击中了一栋五层居民楼。紧急救援部门表示，至少14人死亡，其中包括4名儿童，另有50人受伤。

基辅市长维塔利·克利奇科表示，空袭引发的火灾导致人口稠密的达尔尼茨基区发生火灾，造成两人死亡。

泽连斯基说，导弹击中乌克兰中部第聂伯罗和克列缅丘格的高层建筑，造成两人死亡；另有两人在奥列克桑德里亚丧生。

俄罗斯国防部表示，其部队使用高精度陆基、海基、空基武器以及无人机，对基辅和其他乌克兰地区的军工设施进行了“大规模打击”。

声明称，袭击目标包括位于基辅的火点公司制造和储存“火烈鸟”巡航导弹以及中远程无人机的地点，以及基辅、切尔尼戈夫、基洛沃格勒、第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克、波尔塔瓦和哈尔科夫等地区。

该部补充说，袭击还针对敖德萨地区的港口和船舶修理基础设施，以及据称用于乌克兰武装部队利益的船只。

“乌克兰昨晚再次遭到俄罗斯导弹袭击，”乌克兰议会人权事务专员德米特罗·卢比涅茨在 Telegram 上表示。

“又一个不眠之夜，又一起恐怖袭击，即便如此，人们仍然不得不安排一天的工作，”他补充道。

近几周来，基辅遭受了持续不断的轰炸，俄罗斯空袭了能源基础设施、铁路和公路运输，包括连接该市与第聂伯河的桥梁。

空袭警报几乎持续不断，敦促居民躲到地下室、防空洞和地铁站内。

泽连斯基在另一篇帖子中表示，乌克兰军队在过去 24 小时内袭击了俄罗斯的四个目标，包括彼尔姆、萨马拉和阿斯特拉罕地区的两个石油设施和一个训练场，并在黑海进行了反击。

他称这些袭击是对莫斯科空袭的“公正”回应，并补充说，被袭击的设施帮助“俄罗斯资助和发动了其残酷的战争”。