Russian strikes across Ukraine claimed the lives of two civilians on April 22

Russian military strikes on April 22, 2026, claimed the lives of two civilians in the Zaporizhzhia region and left at least 13 others wounded across the Kherson, Chernihiv, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts, according to the National Police of Ukraine.

A house engulfed in flames following a Russian strike in the Donetsk Oblast

The fatalities from Russian strikes on April 22 include:

• An assistant train driver, who was killed during a morning attack on a railway convoy near the Zaporizhzhia-Live station.
• An individual traveling in a vehicle near the village of Cherkaski Tyshky, which was directly targeted by a Russian drone.

Among those wounded in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on April 22 were an elderly woman from Osavulske, following a targeted airstrike, and a colleague of the fallen railway worker.

In the Kherson region, six civilians sustained injuries in the regional capital. The wounded include a volunteer whose vehicle was targeted by a drone-dropped explosive in the morning, three residents injured in a strike near a local shop, and an elderly man targeted by a drone in the city center later in the evening.

Four additional civilian casualties were reported in the Kharkiv Oblast, including a man and a woman from Vilkhuvatka, a man from Zolochiv, and another individual from the Kharkiv district.

Single injuries were also recorded in the Dnipropetrovsk and Chernihiv regions; in both instances, the victims were elderly women.

To provide background, Russian shelling on April 21 claimed the lives of two people across Ukraine. Over the course of more than four years of full-scale war, the civilian death toll has surpassed 15,500.

Ukrainian experts point out that countries including China, North Korea, Hungary, Slovakia, Iran, Serbia, and Brazil assist Moscow in killing Ukrainians in its war against Ukraine by funding the Russian budget through trade.

In other news, the Council of the European Union has formally approved amendments to the EU’s 2021-2027 budget, enabling the provision of a €90 billion loan to Ukraine, and also adopted the EU’s 20th package of sanctions against Russia, news outlet Ukrainiska Pravda reported. The new Russia sanctions package has been adopted in the form agreed in February 2025 – without a full ban on maritime services for Russian tankers.