Russia just hit four Ukrainian regions in one night
1 hour ago · 7 October 2026Share
Aftermath of the Russian missile attack on Kharkiv, with rescue operation carried out by Ukrainian emergency workers. File photo. State Emergency Service of Ukraine / Державна служба України з надзвичайних ситуацій · CC BY 4.0
Russia just hit four parts of Ukraine in one night.
Kyiv. Dnipro. Zaporizhzhia. And the Poltava region.
Ballistic missiles. Cruise missiles. Drones. Guided bombs. All of it, before dawn this morning.
Let's start with Kyiv.
Two people are dead in the Darnytskyi district. Falling debris started a fire at a garage cooperative there. Vitalii Klitschko, the Mayor of Kyiv, and the Kyiv City Military Administration reported the deaths.
Three other districts got hit too. Non-residential buildings in Obolonskyi and Shevchenkivskyi. A warehouse in Podilskyi.
Now Kremenchuk, in the Poltava region.
A strike hit a residential area. Apartment buildings are damaged. Vitalii Diakivnych runs the Poltava Regional Military Administration. He reported the strike himself, and says the number of people killed or wounded is still being checked.
Russian forces also hit an enterprise in the Kremenchuk district. No detail yet on what that damage looks like.
So how did this start?
An air raid alert went off in Kyiv and most of Ukraine at 03:09 this morning. The threat was ballistic missiles, tracked from Russia's Bryansk region and from the south. Explosions followed in Kyiv and in Dnipro.
In Dnipro, an industrial facility got hit. A ballistic missile threat for the city had already been announced before it happened. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, reported the strike. The number killed or wounded there is still being checked too.
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Russian drone strike on Kharkiv on 7 July 2025, showing destructions in a residential area and Kharkiv old town. File photo. State Emergency Service of Ukraine / Державна служба України з надзвичайних ситуацій · CC BY 4.0
In Zaporizhzhia, Russian forces hit transport infrastructure. Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, announced it and warned drivers to expect temporary road restrictions.
And here's what Ukraine's own Air Force says was used. Ballistic missiles. Cruise missiles. Both conventional and jet-powered drones. Guided aerial bombs. Ballistic missiles specifically were tracked toward Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and the Poltava region.
But nobody, not Russia, not Ukraine, has said this attack was timed to that. So we're not saying it either.
Here's the bigger picture though.
This isn't a one-off. Russia has been hitting Ukrainian cities and infrastructure since the war began in February 2022. And this attack follows the exact same pattern as before. Ballistic missiles aimed at several regions at once. Industrial sites and transport hit alongside residential buildings.
So what don't we know yet?
The total number of missiles and drones used hasn't been confirmed. Reports don't even agree on how many bombers Russia sent up overnight — one account says nine, another says six Tu-95 bombers took off from Olenegorsk, and neither has been checked a third way. Full numbers of those killed or wounded in Dnipro and in the Kremenchuk residential strike aren't in yet. Russia's government and military haven't said a word about any of it. And Ukraine hasn't put out one full damage assessment covering all four regions yet.
Here's what we do know for certain.
Two people are dead in Kyiv. Apartment buildings are damaged in Kremenchuk. Industrial and transport sites are hit in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia.
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