Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported 405 attack drones and 28 missiles launched overnight, with 12 missiles and 55 drones striking 26 locations and emergency power cuts imposed across most regions.
- Authorities confirmed civilian casualties including at least two dead and 25 wounded in Kyiv and four dead, including two children, in the Kyiv region, with multiple residential fires and damage to energy facilities.
- In Kharkiv, prosecutors said Geran‑2 drones struck a private educational building used as a kindergarten, killing one man and injuring six, while rescuers evacuated about 50 children to a shelter.
- Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces hit strategic sites inside Russia, including an ammunition plant in Mordovia and the Makhachkala oil refinery in Dagestan, as intelligence reported operations targeting air‑defense assets in Crimea.
- EU leaders are set to focus on Ukraine’s financing needs and potential use of immobilized Russian assets, Norway announced about $150 million in new energy support, and partners flagged a roughly €400 million gap in energy‑sector funding as a Coalition of the Willing meeting on 24 October coordinates further pressure on Russia.