Russian attack overnight kills, wounds civilians including child; some Districts of Ukraine’s capital left without power (updated)
Russian strikes on the night of October 10, 2025, killed and wounded civilians and damaged infrastructure across Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, and Poltava regions. The strikes caused power cuts across several of these regions.
A fire broke out after a residential building was hit in Kyiv’s Pecherskyi DistrictA wave of strikes hit energy infrastructure and apartment buildings in Kyiv.
Five out of the nine people injured in the strikes on the capital have been taken to the hospital, Klitschko said.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) released images of firefighters battling blazes at a 10-story building.
Twelve people were injured while residents in eastern districts of Ukraine’s capital were plunged into darkness and faced disruption to water supplies, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES).
A fire broke out after a residential building was hit in the Pecherskyi District in Kyiv. The Kyiv Animal Rescue Group saved three cats during the cleanup and damage control efforts.
Meanwhile, Ivan Fedorov, the regional head of Zaporizhzhia, stated that the city came under intense attacks overnight. A seven-year-old child died, and eleven other people were injured.
Russian forces wounded a man in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia used 32 missiles and 465 drones of various types in their attack. Ukrainian air defense systems intercepted 420 aerial objects. Strikes were confirmed in 19 locations, and the Russian attack was still ongoing at the time of this report.
BBC News pointed out that Moscow has escalated attacks on energy facilities over recent weeks, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for “real steps” from allies to apply pressure to Russia.
“What’s needed is not window dressing but decisive action — from the United States, Europe, and the G7 – in delivering air defense systems and enforcing sanctions,” he wrote in a post on X.
He described such attacks as “cynical and calculated,” aimed against “everything that sustains normal life” as temperatures continue to drop.
Ukraine’s Energy Minister, Svitlana Hrynchuk, said Russia was “inflicting a massive strike” and that repair crews were working to restore power.
Ukrenergo’s press service released a statement, reporting that the power supply situation in Ukraine remains the most difficult in Kyiv, as well as the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, and Chernihiv oblasts.
“Emergency power cuts have been introduced to stabilize the energy system situation in some of the named regions, as well as in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions,” the statement reads.
Due to the consequences of previous Russian shelling, Chernihivoblenergo has implemented a scheduled hourly power outage chart for one group of consumers.
The water supply in the city of Konotop, Sumy Oblast, will be restricted due to damage to the energy infrastructure, according to Konotop Mayor Artem Semenikhin.
“Unfortunately, the electricity situation has worsened significantly. Due to this, we are switching to a water supply schedule,” he wrote on social media.
The water supply schedule calls for water to be supplied daily from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
