Russian missile strike on Pryluky kills at least 14 and injures 50
Russian forces launched a missile strike on Pryluky in the Chernihiv Region (Oblast) on the morning of 7 October 2026, the head of the Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration, Viacheslav Chaus, and the National Police press service stated. The attack hit a five-storey residential building, a children’s and youth creativity centre, and an enterprise. The strike killed at least 14 civilians, including four children.
“The number of injured people has risen to 50, including seven children. Search operations for people under the rubble of the multi-storey building are ongoing,” the police wrote.
According to the head of the Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration, at least 27 injured people were hospitalised, three of whom are in a critical condition. Another 23 people are receiving outpatient medical care.
Rescuers have already saved 12 people. Operations to search for people under the rubble are continuing.
According to the police, children are among the injured, including a three-year-old, a five-year-old, an eight-year-old and two nine-year-old girls.
Police officers, rescuers, medics and other emergency services are working at the scene.
On the night of 7 October, Russians launched a large-scale combined attack on Ukraine, using anti-ship, ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as 130 drones. Air defence forces shot down or suppressed 161 aerial targets. The strikes caused deaths and injuries. Residential buildings, enterprises and critical, transport and other civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
Russians destroyed the warehouse facilities of the Knyholav publishing house in Kyiv’s Podil District during this attack, the publishing house reported. These premises stored the publishing house’s books, which had been restored after the first Russian strike on Knyholav’s warehouses in July.
To provide background, on 5 October, the US president Donald Trump once again blamed Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s oil refining industry for rising fuel prices.
“What’s driving up Gasoline is no longer the Strait of Hormuz, because Record Numbers of Barrels are coming out now on an almost daily basis, but the word, ‘Refineries,’ where Russia’s are being blown up by Ukraine,” he wrote on social media platform Truth Social.
Trump has not secured an end to Russia’s war within 24 hours of taking office, as he had promised. Furthermore, numerous Ukrainian and international experts point out that the U.S., as a guarantor state under the Budapest Memorandum, is pressuring Kyiv into capitulation.
Russia received more than 176,000 tonnes of petroleum products from South Korea in July and August 2026, an adviser to the president of Ukraine on sanctions policy, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, stated on Facebook. The bulk of the supplies consisted of diesel fuel. In August, Korean supplies accounted for about 31% of all Russian fuel imports.
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