Russian Strikes Injure 19 Across Kyiv, Odesa — SkimNews
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- Russia's missile and drone strikes injured at least 19 people across Ukraine's Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Odesa regions overnight, with debris from intercepted targets falling at five sites
- Ukraine's Air Force said it destroyed or suppressed 131 Russian aerial targets, with strikes recorded at 36 locations across the three regions
- Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces hit three bulk carriers and a ferry used to carry military supplies in the port of Chornomorsk, claiming the strikes targeted metallurgical, electronics, military-industrial, energy, and transport facilities
- In Odesa, seven people were injured including two children; a high-rise apartment building was damaged, a private residential building was destroyed, and a nursery school, warehouses, cars, and garages were hit
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported a Ukrainian drone strike hit an oil refinery in Yaroslavl northeast of Moscow, sparking a fire that was later extinguished, and separately said Ukrainian strikes damaged Russian warplanes and helicopters at a Rostov military base
- Al Jazeera correspondent Rory Challands said the strikes come days after Trump announced Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt attacks on energy facilities — a claim Challands said neither side has honored, with Russia promising intensified strikes on Ukraine's energy grid heading into winter
Why it matters: Seven of the injured were in Odesa, including two children, and strikes hit a nursery school and the Chornomorsk port used to move military supplies. Russia is escalating attacks on Ukraine's energy grid heading into winter — which 'almost collapsed' last year per Al Jazeera — despite Trump's claim that both sides agreed to pause energy strikes, a claim neither side has honored.
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