
A wave of overnight Russian missile and drone strikes targeted multiple regions across Ukraine on Wednesday (October 7, 2026), killing at least 28 people—including five young children who died in their sleep when a missile struck a residential apartment block in the Pryluky district of northern Chernihiv province.
Ukrainian officials reported that the strike reduced half of the five-story residential building to rubble and scorched concrete, killing 20 occupants at that single site. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that among the victims were three infants aged just 12 months, an eight-year-old child, and another youth whose body was recovered by emergency crews from under the debris. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russian forces launched at least 50 missiles and 130 attack drones across the Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Poltava regions. President Zelensky condemned the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure and renewed urgent calls for advanced Western air defense systems to counter ballistic missile threats. The intensified bombardment has triggered widespread air raid sirens across Kyiv, sending thousands of anxious residents into underground subway stations for shelter as winter approaches.
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