Russian attacks in Ukraine killed at least eight people, injured 60 and disrupted electricity supplies to more than one million people, Ukrainian officials said.
The strikes on Friday affected nine regions, including the eastern city of Kharkiv, the frontline city of Kramatorsk and areas near Ukraine’s borders with Poland.
In Kharkiv, a 71-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man were killed in attacks on three districts, while 12 people were wounded, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Two people died in Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, and two others were killed in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region.
In Volyn, a drone hit a food-processing facility, killing one person and injuring eight, Governor Roman Romaniuk said. Drones also struck a customs terminal in Kovel, setting fire to about 10 lorries on a major route between Kyiv and Poland.
One person was killed and seven wounded when drones hit a major shopping centre and other sites in Rivne, Governor Oleksandr Koval said. A shopping centre in Sumy, close to the frontline, was also hit.
Power cuts across Ukraine
Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said repair crews had restored electricity to more than one million people affected by the attacks.
About 370,000 households lost power in Volyn, with supplies restored to at least 100,000 of them. Andriy Razumovskyi, the mayor of the regional capital Lutsk, said the blackout there could last for at least 24 hours.
Large parts of Rivne were also left without electricity. Russia’s military chief told President Vladimir Putin that the military had allocated the resources needed to continue its aerial campaign against Ukraine’s energy system.
UN reports rising civilian toll
The United Nations said civilian casualties in Ukraine had risen sharply. Its human rights monitors recorded at least 328 civilians killed and 2,105 wounded last month, an increase of 85% compared with September 2025.
Between January and September 2026, at least 2,570 civilians were killed and 15,211 wounded, the monitors said. The figures were almost 60% higher than during the same period last year and more than double the level recorded in 2024.
Danielle Bell, head of the UN’s human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, said: “The first two weeks of October were among the deadliest periods for civilians in years.”
