The last week of October was marked by another wave of Russian terror against the civilian population. As a result of Russian attacks on October 29 in Dnipro, Chernihiv, and Kremenchuk, 20 people were killed, including two 15-year-old girls. Due to daily attacks on energy infrastructure, a difficult electricity supply situation was reported in Dnipro, Konotop, and the Kyiv region. Kyiv was once again targeted by ballistic strikes; as reported by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, over the past two weeks Russia attacked the capital region with more than a hundred ballistic missiles. Russians launched a significant number of double-tap strikes targeting rescuers and State Emergency Service equipment; at least four specialists were killed in the line of duty.
Chronicle of Russian Shelling from October 26 to November 1, 2026
As a result of enemy shelling on October 26 in Zaporizhzhia, fires broke out and residential buildings, a commercial building, a gas station, a closed shopping center, a hotel, and cars were damaged; seven people were injured, including one minor. The day before, two rescuers from the State Emergency Service passed away in the hospital: 44-year-old Yurii Ilchenko and 38-year-old Artem Khanat. In the Odesa region, an enemy strike destroyed an industrial enterprise and damaged garages; repeated strikes on rescuers damaged firefighting equipment. In Kherson, a man injured during a drone attack on a minibus on October 25 passed away, bringing the total number of victims to seven people, with one man remaining in critical condition. On the previous day, Russians twice attacked a medical facility in the city center, injuring an employee and damaging buildings. In Kharkiv, a 14-year-old boy was injured; trucks, an administrative building, and an online store building were damaged. In a capital hospital, 12-year-old Artem Koval passed away after being wounded during Russian shelling of a park in Nova Vodolaha village. In Kramatorsk, an FPV drone strike on a civilian car killed a woman and wounded a man; airstrikes on the residential sector injured 17 residents and damaged 38 houses, two stores, a post office, and cars. An FPV drone also hit a rescuers' vehicle. In Yasnohirka of Kramatorsk hromada and in Sloviansk, airstrikes killed two women and injured more than ten people, including a 13-year-old girl; private houses, shopping pavilions, and stores were destroyed and damaged. On the eve, a person was also killed in Sloviansk, with two dozen private houses, apartment buildings, a service station, cars, four units of municipal equipment, and five city buses destroyed or damaged. In Shostka hromada in the Sumy region, a hit on grain warehouses injured a man and caused a large-scale fire; during firefighting efforts, the enemy launched a double-tap strike.
On October 27, the Russian army launched massive strikes on energy, logistics, and urban infrastructure in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Sumy, Donetsk, Kherson, and Chernivtsi regions. In Kharkiv, missile strikes killed two people and injured four others, including a 17-year-old girl; 20 garages, cars, four apartment buildings, an administrative building, three civilian enterprises, and a children's facility were damaged. "Ukrainska Pravda. Zhyttia" reported that a warehouse of the "KSD" publishing house was damaged. In the village of Shevchenkove, a woman was killed. Missile strikes on Izium and Derhachi damaged private houses, a garage, cars, warehouses, and a gas station, injuring five people. Commercial kiosks at a market in Lozova were on fire. In the suburbs of Zaporizhzhia, a Russian drone damaged a fire tanker vehicle during the liquidation of the consequences of a previous attack. In the evening, Russians launched an airstrike on central Sloviansk, destroying an educational institution building and damaging multi-story buildings, a cafe, shops, and a church; a woman was injured. Throughout the day in the city, two more people were injured, and houses, warehouses, and a truck caught fire. In Kramatorsk, a nine-story building and private houses were on fire; during firefighting, an enemy UAV hit a fire tanker, and a drone hit an ambulance car. In the Poltava region, UAV debris caused a fire in a summer house, and a drone hit an enterprise. The enemy targeted a critical infrastructure facility in the Chernivtsi region.
In the Kharkiv region on October 28, 14 people were injured, including a four-year-old child and five adults in Kharkiv. Cars, a subway station entrance, an administrative building, a civilian enterprise, two apartment buildings, and a private house were damaged in the city. In Sumy, a UAV strike on a warehouse injured a person. In Shostka district, during demining operations, ammunition detonated, killing two sappers from the State Emergency Service: 32-year-old Oleksandr Kovalchuk and 39-year-old Denys Sydorych. Konotop remained without electricity for the fifth day due to a strike on an energy facility. In Sloviansk, three private houses, an apartment building, seven industrial premises, and a shop were damaged, and a person was killed. In Kramatorsk, a person was injured and an apartment building was damaged.
In Kharkiv on October 29, a man was killed and four people were injured when a post office warehouse was hit; an educational institution, post warehouses, an outbuilding, and transport were damaged. The enemy launched missile strikes on Lozova and attacked Izium with KAB guided bombs. In Izium, a healthcare facility was damaged, six people were killed, five of whom were employees of the Izium branch of the Kharkiv Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and 15 people were wounded. In Lozova, six people were injured, and an enterprise was damaged. In Kremenchuk, Poltava region, a missile strike killed three people, including a mother of two twin children who shielded them with her body, while 32 others were injured, including six children; apartment buildings were damaged, and cars caught fire. Zaporizhzhia suffered a record number of FPV drone attacks: the enemy hit a municipal bus, a trolleybus, and a route taxi, injuring civilians; one woman is in critical condition. A warehouse building and an apartment building were also damaged; in the village of Bilenke in Zaporizhzhia district, one person was killed and three were injured. In Rivne region, an attack on a civilian enterprise caused a fire, killing a man. In Sloviansk, FAB-250 and FAB-500 airstrikes partially destroyed a nine-story building and a building of one of the city's oldest educational institutions, damaging at least nine apartment buildings, private houses, a medical facility, a hotel, and cars; two people were injured.
In Sumy region on October 30, a 43-year-old woman was killed and eight people were injured when drones hit a civilian enterprise. In Kremenchuk and its district, strikes on the private sector and an enterprise were recorded. In Kharkiv, one injured person was reported, and an enterprise, glazing of an educational institution building, and two trucks were damaged; a five-year-old girl was injured in the region. In Sloviansk, two people were killed, including a 16-year-old boy killed in an FPV drone strike on a car; 12 people were injured, and an apartment building, about 30 private houses, administrative buildings, a gas station, a post office branch, and cars were damaged, creating a complex power supply situation in the community. In Kramatorsk, private houses were damaged and two people were injured. Over the past day in Zaporizhzhia region, nearly 1,000 enemy strikes were recorded; two people were killed and 23 injured, with 12 people in severe condition.
Due to attacks on Kharkiv on October 31, nine civilians suffered, three of whom were injured; fires broke out, damaging a shopping center, 15 private houses, a civilian enterprise, and transport. In Poltava region, two men were injured due to an attack on an industrial enterprise, causing fires and damaging residential houses. In Poltava, a fire broke out in a garage cooperative. Russians hit a thermal power plant in Shostka hromada, Sumy region; 14 people were injured in the region, including two in Sumy.
On the night of November 1, the adversary attacked Ukraine with 433 strike UAVs, 64 of which were jet-powered; hits were recorded at 16 locations, with downed drones and debris falling at 14 locations as the enemy attack continued. At night, Russians launched an airstrike on Kramatorsk, destroying the central building of Ukrainian statehood. Due to shelling in Sloviansk, a man was killed and two people were injured; more than 20 private houses and cars were damaged. In Sumy region, six people were injured, and civilian and railway infrastructure was damaged; in Hlukhiv hromada, the enemy launched a double-tap strike on rescuers during firefighting, though personnel were unharmed. In Kharkiv, a man was injured and railway infrastructure was damaged; in the region, six people were injured, including a teenager. The enemy attacked energy infrastructure in Zhytomyr region, cutting power to over 650 settlements. Overnight, Vinnytsia region suffered a massive attack: Russians struck energy facilities; in Vinnytsia, a mobile communications tower, warehouse, multi-story buildings, a transport stop, and a car were damaged. In Rivne region, a fire broke out in a residential house, injuring four people.
Chernihiv Region
In Chernihiv region over the week, a grain storehouse with pumpkin seeds and wheat, a hangar storing 70 tons of grain, and a warehouse with 700 tons of potatoes were attacked; equipment was also destroyed, and FPV drone hits on forestry workers' cars were recorded. The housing stock was also affected: residential buildings were damaged and destroyed by fire in various hromadas of the region, and a house of culture in Mena was destroyed. Almost two dozen casualties are known, including a 12-year-old child.
In the regional center, the enemy attacked a storage facility, several enterprises, an animal shelter, and a street in the city center. On the evening of October 28, due to a "Banderol" strike on the veterinary sterilization center "Krok Do Tvaryn" ("Step to Animals"), a dog was killed and the territory damaged; three women and four animals were injured. More than 100 animals were inside the center; caring local residents took them in for temporary shelter on the same day.
The following day, October 29, the enemy launched a "Banderol" missile strike on the center of Chernihiv, as reported by the Chernihiv Regional Prosecutor's Office. As a result of the strike, two 15-year-old girls were killed and 37 other people were injured, including five children: ten-month-old and ten-year-old girls, and two boys aged 16 and 17. A brother and sister were hospitalized in critical condition; a total of eight people remain in hospitals. Apartment buildings, 13 shops, three office buildings, three pharmacies, and cars were damaged, and fires broke out. The press service of Chernihiv Lyceum No. 1 reported that their students—classmates Yana Pieshkova and Mariia Mozhova—were killed. Yana practiced rhythmic gymnastics, and Mariia practiced dancing. A Day of Mourning was declared in the city on October 30.
Kyiv Region
As a result of ballistic missile strikes and UAV attacks in Kyiv on October 27, one person was killed and 14 people were injured, most of whom were students from a university dormitory near the missile impact site. Also among the wounded were two ambulance medics; nine people were hospitalized, three in serious condition.
Hits, destruction, and fires were recorded in Desnianskyi, Dniprovskyi, Obolonskyi, Podilskyi, Holosiivskyi, and Darnytskyi districts: damage was caused to a university building and dormitory, at least 12 multi-story buildings, non-residential and administrative buildings, including one of the offices of "DTEK Kyiv Grids," a shopping center, business center, gas station, two medical facilities, a tram, and more than ten cars, including an ambulance vehicle. Direct hits occurred near residential buildings and a dormitory; an ambulance crew en route to a call came under fire.
Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Maksym Butenko reported that a hit occurred on the territory of the State University of Trade and Economics, damaging academic buildings and dormitories.
The enemy launched a strike on the infrastructure of the Pivdennyi Bridge, leading to its closure and the temporary suspension of train service on the green metro line; exits of the "Lisova" subway station were damaged.
In Kyiv, as a result of ballistic missile and UAV attacks on October 30, one person was killed and another injured. In Dniprovskyi district, residential buildings, a gas station, and cars were damaged, and a store was partially destroyed; in Darnytskyi district, fires broke out on the territory of warehouse buildings. On the night of October 31, three UAV strikes on a critical infrastructure facility caused power outages to several facilities and temporary large-scale water supply issues in many areas of the capital; system operations were fully restored overnight. In Shevchenkivskyi district, glazing in a 14-story building was damaged. In Desnianskyi district of the capital, a fire raged at a parking lot near a market.
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During the week in Vyshhorod, Brovary, and Obukhiv districts, an infrastructure facility, private houses, and outbuildings were damaged. On October 29, Russians struck a poultry farm in Boryspil district of Kyiv region: the fire was extinguished, saving 15,000 out of 16,000 birds. In Brovary district, two people were injured during a drone attack; one woman was hospitalized.
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Dnipropetrovsk Region
Dnipropetrovsk region suffered numerous enemy attacks, particularly Dnipro and Pavlohrad. In Pavlohrad over the week, one person was killed and 20 others were injured, including at least five children and two 15-year-old teenagers; several victims are in serious condition. During this period in the city, multi-story and private houses, infrastructure facilities, shops, garages, and cars were damaged or destroyed. Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Kryvyi Rih districts came under constant strikes, with extensive damage and casualties reported.
In the first days of the week in Dnipro, an enterprise, critical infrastructure, and a lyceum stadium were damaged; windows were blown out at the educational facility, and three people were injured in the strike, two of whom required hospitalization. Overall, the enemy targeted critical infrastructure facilities throughout the week, causing power outages. Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that overnight on October 31, Russians struck four electrical substations in the region and a gas distribution facility. The most difficult power situation was observed in Dnipro, Kamianske, and Pavlohrad districts.
On October 29 in Dnipro, a jet UAV attacked a railway station platform where people were present and train No. 866 Dnipro – Zaporizhzhia was standing; 15 people were killed and 14 injured, six of whom were hospitalized in critical condition, including an 11-year-old boy; a 40-year-old man suffered double leg amputations. "Ukrainska Pravda. Zhyttia" reports that the Russian strike killed five Ukrzaliznytsia employees. Among the deceased were five residents of the Zaporizhzhia region, and among the injured residents of the region is an 11-year-old child, reported acting head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Mykhailo Semikin.
According to data from Ukrzaliznytsia, the evacuation was announced in time, but people remained near the train, leading to numerous casualties; the company promised to review safety protocols.
In the evening, the enemy attacked the city again with jet UAVs; a hit on a vocational school dormitory caused a fire and injured two teenagers, blowing out windows in the building; an enterprise in the city was also damaged.
On October 30, a Day of Mourning was declared in the Dnipropetrovsk region for those killed over the past month. On this day, Russians again attacked the railway station as well as critical infrastructure facilities; two women were injured, and apartment buildings and a school were damaged. On October 31, a woman was killed in Dnipro district, and garages caught fire in the suburbs of Dnipro.
Contributors to this material:
Researcher, author: Yana Yevmenova
Photo Editor: Marusia Maruzhenko
Copy Editor: Yuliia Futei
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