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To the energy truce announced by US President Donald Trump and supported by Ukraine, Russia responded with round-the-clock terror. Taking advantage of artificial speed restrictions on Ukraine's defensive capabilities, the enemy launched continuous waves of drones, loitering munitions, aerial bombs, and various types of missiles against Ukrainian cities. Over the week, the Russians carried out 76 strikes on the energy and oil and gas sectors, Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported. Civilians were killed in Kropyvnytskyi, Lutsk, Volyn, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and other cities and communities subjected to daily Russian shelling.
Chronicle of Russian shelling from October 12 to 18, 2026
In Sloviansk on October 12, MLRS shelling and an airstrike from the previous day killed one person and injured 14, damaging over 44 private houses, cars, a gas station, kiosks, and a store. In Kramatorsk, two people were killed and three were injured, with damage to housing, a market, warehouses, infrastructure, and educational institutions. In the village of Cherkaske in the Kramatorsk district, MLRS cluster munition shelling killed three people, including a 13-year-old girl, destroying a private house; another person was killed in Yasnohirka. The enemy launched a massive attack on Kharkiv and the region using missiles, KAB glide bombs, and UAVs. In Kharkiv, hits on high-rise residential buildings, the private sector, a sports complex, and an enterprise killed one person and injured 23, including three children. In Pisochyn, a missile strike on a store claimed the lives of three people, including a teenager, and injured 28 others, including four children, while also damaging residential property. In Lozova, one person was killed and seven were injured, including a child; private houses, storage facilities, and an educational institution were damaged. In Zhytomyr Oblast, a drone hit triggered a fire at a railway infrastructure facility, and a blast wave shattered windows in ten residential houses and damaged equipment. In Sumy Oblast, one person was killed, four were injured, and one remained in critical condition. In Kherson, a municipal worker was injured while on duty; in Beryslav, a civilian was killed. In Mykolaiv, enemy UAVs struck a cargo terminal; in the Ochakiv community, a missile strike damaged a warehouse facility, apartment blocks, and a private house, injuring a woman. Across the region, warehouses, a service station, a truck, and private homesteads were also damaged. In southern Odesa Oblast, Russians launched a strike against the logistics facilities of a postal operator.
On the night of October 13, a missile strike on a four-story residential building in the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv completely destroyed an entrance section, killing four people and injuring 41 others. Five people were hospitalized, two in severe condition, including a State Emergency Service rescuer who sustained critical injuries from collapsing structures during search and rescue operations. In Izium, residential houses, outbuildings, garages, and commercial pavilions at a market were ablaze. In Donetsk Oblast, three people were killed and at least 18 were injured over the day. In Sloviansk, one person was killed and eight were injured; an airstrike on an invincible point damaged the facility itself and five high-rise buildings. In Kramatorsk, shelling at a water distribution station injured four people, including two women in severe condition, causing fires in apartments and at a market. In Rivne, falling UAV debris on an educational institution injured 30 people, caused a fire, and partially damaged the second floor of the building. In Lviv Oblast, falling UAVs injured three people, caused fires in three residential buildings, and burned three cars. In Lutsk, shelling caused a fire at a cultural and entertainment complex. Russian forces struck the Epicentr logistics distribution center in Khmelnytskyi ten times, destroying about 85% of the inventory stored in the warehouse, Ukrainska Pravda reported. In Odesa Oblast, an administrative and warehouse building of a private enterprise was damaged.
Overnight on October 14, Russians launched a massive strike on Ukraine with strike UAVs and missiles, targeting railway and energy infrastructure. As Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated, the attacks inflicted significant damage on facilities and equipment across 26 elements of the power grid, as well as four oil and gas facilities. In Kharkiv Oblast, two energy enterprises were struck as the enemy fired around 11 missiles. In Derhachi, an FPV drone strike injured five people and sparked a fire at a commercial enterprise, burning trucks. UAVs attacked four districts of Kharkiv, injuring two people and striking the roof of a supermarket, the roadway, and a parking area; an administrative building, a commercial firm, and 15 vehicles were damaged. In Sloviansk, an airstrike and MLRS shelling killed one person and injured about a dozen others, damaging multi-story residential buildings and a non-residential facility. In Kramatorsk, an airstrike destroyed an entrance section of a nine-story building, damaged five other buildings, and caused fires in a shop and residential area, injuring four people. In Lutsk, a UAV attack killed six people and injured 13, including a child, leaving one person in critical condition and causing a fire at a wholesale depot. In Khmelnytskyi Oblast, falling drone debris at a gas station lightly injured two people, while fires broke out at enterprises and private homesteads. In Ternopil, an administrative building was damaged, causing a fire on the second floor. In Rivne, the roof of a three-story residential building and nearby vehicles caught fire, damaging a neighboring residential house and injuring eight people, including a child. In Vinnytsia Oblast, a railway infrastructure site was attacked, triggering a large-scale fire. In Chernihiv Oblast, private houses, an administrative building, a truck at an agricultural enterprise, and an abandoned school building were damaged.
During the night of October 15, Kirovohrad Oblast came under a massive UAV attack: three people were killed, six were injured, and strikes were recorded across 25 locations. Enterprises, storage and logistics facilities, transport infrastructure, residential houses, and cars were damaged, while fires raged. In Ternopil Oblast, an enterprise was damaged. In Rivne, UAVs attacked the private sector, causing a fire. Due to the deaths on the previous day, a day of mourning was declared in the Lutsk urban territorial community. In Poltava Oblast, the enemy targeted two industrial enterprises, injuring a worker; in Poltava, an enemy strike damaged windows of an educational institution, vehicles, private homesteads, an apartment building, and several public buildings, injuring three people. In Sumy Oblast, two civilians were hurt, and a young woman was injured in Sumy when a drone struck the roadway. Occupiers launched airstrikes on the residential sector of Izium, injuring four people, destroying a garage, and damaging at least seven private houses, outbuildings, and the fence of a fire and rescue unit. In Kramatorsk, an FPV drone hit sparked a fire at a culture center, and another drone attack killed a public transport driver. In Sloviansk, a Russian airstrike took the lives of two people and damaged residential infrastructure. In Odesa Oblast, apartment buildings, a bank building, and a private company were damaged, with a massive fire and partial destruction occurring at a supermarket building; civilian cars were damaged, and four people were injured. In Mykolaiv Oblast, empty warehouses, agricultural machinery, and cars were damaged on the grounds of an agricultural enterprise.
In Uman, Cherkasy Oblast, on October 16, UAV attacks sparked fires in a ten-story building, destroyed a car, and demolished the guardhouse of a residential complex from whose rubble a man was rescued. Commercial warehouses also caught fire, and five civilians were injured. In Cherkasy, a fire broke out on the grounds of a private enterprise. In Rivne Oblast, Russians damaged civil infrastructure facilities, injuring seven people. In Lviv Oblast, residential buildings, a furniture factory, and a state institution building were damaged, leaving one man injured. In Lutsk, a garage cooperative caught fire, and in Volyn, a strike on an enterprise killed one person, injured eight others, and caused a minor ammonia leak. In Khmelnytskyi Oblast, critical infrastructure and residential houses were damaged; in Rivne Oblast, fire destroyed a private home, injuring one person. In Poltava Oblast, a drone hit railway infrastructure, and debris fell on private residential properties. In Sumy, a UAV hit a shopping center, damaging its roof and facade, and struck civilian transport—one man was severely injured. In Bakhmach, Chernihiv Oblast, the enemy struck the residential sector and an office building, with four people seeking medical assistance. In Kharkiv, occupiers launched UAV and missile strikes on Osnovyanskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Industrialnyi, Novobavarskyi, and Nemyshlianskyi districts: two people were killed, and 41 others were injured, including three children, ten of whom were hospitalized, two in severe condition. Four apartment buildings, cars, an office building, a dormitory, three warehouses, and a store were damaged. In Kramatorsk, FPV drones targeted civilian transport and municipal machinery, killing two men and injuring at least eight people. In Odesa Oblast, four people were injured, and seven private residential houses, an energy infrastructure object, and a household goods manufacturing plant were damaged. The enemy attacked Mykolaiv with Banderol missiles, injuring a woman, destroying one private home, and damaging 11 others, along with vehicles. In the Mykolaiv district, MLRS and FPV drone attacks damaged a lyceum, two dormitories, private houses, and a garage, injuring a woman who was hospitalized.
On October 17, the Russians launched a massive strike on more than 15 energy infrastructure targets across various regions of Ukraine, with the most difficult situation reported in Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Shepetivka, Slavuta, and Netishyn, while strikes also hit the energy grid in Kharkiv Oblast, Kyiv Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and other areas, Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported. The Russians dropped eight KAB glide bombs on residential neighborhoods in Kherson, damaging about a dozen high-rise buildings, a supermarket, administrative buildings, and vehicles. Fires broke out, an ambulance driver responding to a call was killed, and 33 people were injured, including an infant, an 11-year-old girl, and three medics. The enemy launched a series of airstrikes on a residential district and two private sectors in Sloviansk, partially destroying two apartment blocks, causing major damage in the private sector, killing six people, and injuring at least 15 others, including a teenager; among the dead was State Emergency Service rescuer Anatolii Hopka. Overnight, the enemy attacked a recreational area in Odesa Oblast, damaging holiday homes and private cars. In Rivne Oblast, shelling sparked a fire at an enterprise, injuring two people. In Sumy, an airstrike damaged residential houses, killing one man and injuring at least two others. In Chernihiv Oblast, a medical station, a community center, a school, and residential houses were damaged.
In Kharkiv Oblast on October 18, 12 people were injured, four of them in Kharkiv, where the enemy attacked the city with UAVs and a missile, damaging high-rise buildings, power lines, two gas stations, a hotel, an enterprise, and vehicles. In Sumy Oblast, two civilians were killed and five were injured. In Poltava Oblast, one person was killed and four were injured. In Kramatorsk, there was one fatality and one injury, with 15 apartment blocks and private houses damaged. In Chernihiv Oblast, shelling damaged residential homes; in the morning, the enemy struck an area near an educational institution in Chernihiv, injuring a security guard. In Zhytomyr Oblast, residential houses and power lines were damaged. In Volyn, Russians attacked an agricultural enterprise. Due to strikes on energy facilities in Odesa, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyi Oblasts, tens of thousands of families remain without electricity. Overall during the week, the enemy launched nearly 2,700 strike drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 66 missiles across Ukraine in an attempt to cause a blackout.
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
As a result of Russian attacks on transport infrastructure and an industrial enterprise in Dnipro on October 12–13, one person was killed and four were injured; administrative buildings, an educational facility, high-rise residential buildings, and cars were also damaged, while a private garage was destroyed by fire. In the Dnipro district, a fire broke out in a shopping center. On October 15 in the Novooleksandrivka community of the Dnipro district, a private house was destroyed, killing two people. On the same day in the Dnipro district, Russian troops attacked warehouses belonging to a logistics company, causing a fire and damaging a terminal, trucks, and an administrative building. On October 16–17, the adversary attacked a critical infrastructure facility and an enterprise in Dnipro, causing a fire, killing one person, and injuring four others.
In Pavlohrad on October 12, a large-scale fire broke out at an enterprise, damaging a service station and cars, and injuring three men, one in critical condition. On October 13, drones attacked downtown Pavlohrad, sparking a fire that killed one person and injured four, including an 11-year-old boy. On October 15, the enemy struck private homes, starting fires and leading to the hospitalization of a 31-year-old woman.
As a result of enemy shelling across the region, there are fatalities and widespread destruction. In Nikopol and Synelnykove districts, enemy attacks killed civilians. In Samar, warehouses containing agricultural machinery were ablaze; in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial enterprise, private homes, and vehicles were damaged; in the Kryvyi Rih district, a logistics company's branch and infrastructure facilities were hit. In the Nikopol district, damaged facilities include educational institutions, a sports complex, a shopping center, storage buildings, and infrastructure targets. Zhovti Vody also came under enemy fire. Due to massive strikes on Ukraine's power grid on October 13, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was completely blacked out.
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Zaporizhzhia
On October 12 in Zaporizhzhia, enemy UAVs attacked transport infrastructure, a sports complex building, and a medical facility parking lot, damaging cars and the trolleybus overhead network; civilians were injured, including a 23-year-old woman who was hospitalized. The following day, a drone strike on a warehouse building injured a man and started a fire. In the Zaporizhzhia district, a strike near a suburban cottage community killed one person.
On October 14, Russians launched two strikes on Zaporizhzhia, destroying a private house; a man died from his injuries in the hospital, two other women were injured, and a neighboring house caught fire. On October 16, UAVs attacked a private enterprise, igniting a fire, as well as residential buildings, partially destroying a two-story house and damaging nearby homes and garages; one woman was injured.
On the night of October 17, Russian troops launched a massive strike on residential areas of Zaporizhzhia, damaging apartment blocks in the Voznesenivskyi, Dniprovskyi, and Zavodskyi districts; cars burned in yards, a non-residential building caught fire, and five people were injured, including a child.
Ekonomichna Pravda, citing Metinvest, reports that the Russians once again attacked Zaporizhstal with ballistic missiles—six missiles hit the plant's energy, logistics, and blast furnace infrastructure before it had even resumed operations.
On the night of October 18, the Russian army launched two strikes on Zaporizhzhia, killing a 27-year-old woman and injuring two other people, including a six-year-old girl. The enemy attack damaged two apartment blocks, an educational institution, and 18 vehicles.
Kyiv Oblast
In Kyiv on October 12 and on the night of October 13, UAV attacks and ballistic shelling killed two people and injured 11 others, three of whom were hospitalized. In the Darnytskyi district of the capital, as reported by Mayor Vitali Klitschko, an enemy UAV struck a 25-story residential building between the 12th and 16th floors, while cars caught fire in the yard; at another location, a missile hit a four-story warehouse building. In the Dniprovskyi district, a missile hit a transport infrastructure facility. Debris fell in several districts of the capital: on a private house, near residential buildings, and close to a park.
In Kyiv Oblast, one person was killed, six civilians were injured, and 37 properties were damaged across Bucha, Obukhiv, Boryspil, Vyshhorod, and Bila Tserkva districts.
During the day on October 13 in the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv, a UAV hit an office building on the sixth floor. During a ballistic missile strike on the night of October 14 in the Desnianskyi district, a missile hit caused a fire from the first to the eighth floors of a nine-story building; a warehouse building was also ablaze. In the Darnytskyi district, a two-story private residential house and its fence caught fire and suffered damage, while falling debris struck a stadium and ignited the lawn. In the Solomianskyi district, a drone hit an office building. Five deaths and 25 injuries have been confirmed, including an eight-year-old child; 16 victims remain hospitalized, four in critical condition. The enemy targeted several energy facilities in the city and region; Prime Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Koretskyi clarified that all three municipal thermal power plants (CHPs) were attacked.
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In Kyiv Oblast over October 14, three civilians were injured, and damage was caused to warehouse, non-residential, and production premises, vehicles, retail businesses, preschools, private homesteads, garden houses, and an infrastructure facility.
In the Pecherskyi district of the capital on October 15, falling UAV debris between residential buildings ignited cars, damaging the facade, roof, and glazing of a five-story building, as well as the facades of two neighboring three-story buildings; seven civilians were injured, three of whom were hospitalized. In the Sviatoshynskyi district, a warehouse, a single-story non-residential structure, and dry grass caught fire. In the Shevchenkivskyi district, UAV debris fell into the yard of a private property, sparking a fire in a residential home and a non-residential outbuilding.
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In Kyiv Oblast, Bucha and Vyshhorod districts came under attack: residential homes and outbuildings caught fire, and a woman was injured.
Contributors to this piece:
Researcher and author: Yana Yevmenova
Photo editor: Marusia Maruzhenko
Copy editor: Yulia Futey
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