Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least 19 people across Ukraine on Oct. 7, including 13 in a destroyed apartment building in Pryluky, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry reported.
Three children were among those killed in Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region. At least 43 people there were injured, including children, according to the ministry. The attacks hit Kyiv and 12 regions.
The supplied accounts do not independently verify responsibility for the attacks or the casualty and damage figures. No Russian response to the Oct. 7 attacks was provided.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had earlier reported five deaths and 26 injuries in Pryluky, including five injured children. He described a destroyed five-story apartment building and warned that people might remain beneath the rubble.
Rescuers were continuing to search for people at the site, according to his post. The ministry’s subsequent statement raised the death toll to 13 and the injury count to at least 43.
Missiles also damaged five apartment buildings in Dnipro and four high-rises in Kremenchuk, Zelenskyy reported. He gave a combined toll of two dead and eight injured in those cities; the ministry’s later update reported 27 injuries.
Both accounts reported two people killed in Kyiv and two in Oleksandriia. A drone damaged a high-rise building in Zaporizhzhia, according to Zelenskyy.
Energy Infrastructure and Air Defense
Russia launched about 70 missiles, many of them ballistic, along with Shahed drones, according to the president and the ministry. Zelenskyy said Ukrainian defenses shot down only some.
The ministry’s earlier update described hundreds of missiles and drones targeting residential buildings and critical infrastructure. That preliminary account reported at least two deaths in Kyiv and four elsewhere in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy identified energy infrastructure as one of the main targets. He described Russian ballistic missiles as Ukraine’s greatest air defense challenge and called for additional missiles for Patriot systems.
Ukraine was searching for those missiles every day, he wrote, thanking countries and others helping provide protection.
The Foreign Ministry sought stronger sanctions against Russia’s military-industrial complex, including facilities producing ballistic missiles and the Rassvet satellite system. It also called for more air defense systems and urgent energy assistance before winter.
Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Russia of committing war crimes and linked the attacks to President Vladimir Putin’s birthday.
“On Putin’s birthday, Russian generals brought him his favorite present: war crimes,” Sybiha said, according to the ministry.
Zelenskyy also characterized the destruction of the Pryluky building as a birthday “gift” to Putin.
Ukrainian Strikes and Earlier Russian Reports
In a separate post, Zelenskyy reported that Ukrainian forces had struck four targets over the preceding day that he said helped Russia finance and wage the war.
He listed two oil facilities and a training ground in the Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions, along with an unspecified operation in the Black Sea. The post did not detail the results.
Zelenskyy described the operations as responses to Russian attacks. The supplied material does not independently verify those strikes or establish a connection to the specific attacks reported Oct. 7.
Russian officials had reported drone attacks overnight Oct. 5-6 that killed two people and injured nine in the Moscow region, according to TASS.
Gov. Andrey Vorobyov attributed those attacks to Ukraine. He identified those killed as a 20-year-old man in Radumlya and a 71-year-old man found beneath a destroyed home in Barybin.
Vorobyov later reported damage to 47 private homes across seven districts.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported intercepting and destroying 868 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones between 8 p.m. Moscow time Oct. 5 and 9 a.m. Oct. 6. It listed interceptions over 11 regions, Crimea and the Sea of Azov.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported that 650 drones headed toward the Moscow region between 8:30 p.m. Oct. 5 and 5 a.m. Oct. 6. TASS described the attempted attack on Moscow as one of the largest in two years.
In Gorlovka, Mayor Ivan Prikhodko reported seven civilians injured in a drone strike that damaged a passenger bus.
Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a terrorism case over strikes in the Moscow region and the Donetsk People’s Republic, spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko told TASS.
The Russian casualty, damage and interception figures were not independently verified in the supplied material. The TASS report included no Ukrainian response to those specific claims.
