Russian attacks in Ukraine kill at least 8, cut power to 1 million

Russia strikes Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Volyn and Rivne as Moscow presses its campaign against Ukraine’s power grid.

Al JazeeraAl Jazeera Staff2026-10-17 05:19查看原文 ↗

Russia strikes Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Volyn and Rivne as Russia presses its campaign against Ukraine’s power grid.

An emergency service deminer works at the site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian drone strike in the Rivne region, Ukraine, on October 16, 2026 [Handout/State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters]

Russian attacks killed at least eight people and injured 60 across Ukraine, hit two shopping centres and cut power to more than a million people, Ukrainian officials have said.

The attacks on Friday struck nine regions. In the eastern city of Kharkiv, a 71-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man were killed and 12 people were wounded in strikes on three districts, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.

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Two people were killed in Kramatorsk, a frontline city in the Donetsk region, and two more in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region.

In the northwestern Volyn region, which borders Poland, a drone strike on a food-processing facility killed one person and wounded eight, Governor Roman Romaniuk said.

Drones also hit a customs terminal and set fire to about 10 trucks in the town of Kovel, on a major road from Kyiv to Poland .

In Rivne, drones hit a major shopping centre and other sites, killing one person and wounding seven, regional governor Oleksandr Koval said.

A shopping centre in Sumy, close to the front line, was also hit.

Emergency service deminers work at the site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian drone strike in the Rivne region, Ukraine, on October 16, 2026 [Handout/State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters]

Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said repair crews had restored power to more than a million people who lost it on Friday.

In Volyn, about 370,000 households lost power, with supply since restored to at least 100,000 of them.

The blackout could last at least 24 hours in the regional capital, Lutsk, Mayor Andriy Razumovskyi said.

Large parts of Rivne were also left without power.

Russia’s military chief told President Vladimir Putin on Friday that the military had allocated the assets needed to press its aerial campaign against Ukraine’s energy system.

Meanwhile, the United Nations said on Friday that civilian casualties in Ukraine had climbed steeply.

According to UN human rights monitors, at least 328 civilians were killed and 2,105 wounded in Ukraine last month, 85 percent more than in September 2025.

Between January and September 2026, 2,570 civilians were killed and 15,211 wounded, almost 60 percent more than in the same period last year and more than twice the 2024 level, the report said.

“The first two weeks of October were among the deadliest periods for civilians in years,” said Danielle Bell, head of the UN’s human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine.

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2026年10月16日，在乌克兰里夫内地区，一名紧急服务排雷员在俄罗斯无人机袭击中受损的一栋公寓楼现场进行排雷工作。[乌克兰国家紧急服务部门通过路透社提供]

乌克兰官员称，俄罗斯的袭击在乌克兰造成至少8人死亡、60人受伤，两家购物中心遭到袭击，超过100万人断电。

周五的袭击波及九个地区。州长奥列格·西涅胡博夫表示，在东部城市哈尔科夫，三个区遭到袭击，造成一名71岁妇女和一名58岁男子死亡，另有12人受伤。

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在顿涅茨克地区的前线城市克拉马托尔斯克，有两人丧生；在东南部的第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克地区，又有两人丧生。

波兰西北部沃伦州州长罗曼·罗曼纽克表示，该州一家食品加工厂遭到无人机袭击，造成一人死亡，八人受伤。

无人机还袭击了科韦尔镇的一个海关码头，并点燃了大约 10 辆卡车。科韦尔镇位于基辅通往波兰的一条主要道路上。

里夫内地区州长奥列克桑德·科瓦尔表示，无人机袭击了当地一家大型购物中心和其他地点，造成一人死亡，七人受伤。

苏梅市一家靠近前线的购物中心也遭到袭击。