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A Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv wounded at least 12 people, sparked a fire in an apartment building, and cut off power to swaths of the city, officials said on Oct. 10.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that of the 12 people who were injured in the attacks, eight needed hospital treatment.
In an earlier post, he said Russia was striking the city’s critical infrastructure. The boxing champion-turned-politician said power cuts and disruptions to the water supply had affected districts on the “left bank” of the Dnipro River.
Kyiv Oblast Gov. Mykola Kalashnyk said in a post on Telegram that about 110,000 families in the Brovary and Boryspil districts were without power.
“The enemy is insidious. Its goal is not only to destroy energy facilities but also to break our confidence, sow panic, and make people lose their sense of stability. But that will not happen,” he said.
Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk said in a post on Facebook, “We continue communicating with international partners to strengthen the protection of energy infrastructure and enhance our energy resilience.”
She added that repair crews were “working around the clock to eliminate the consequences of the enemy’s attacks.”
Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said drones and missiles were used in the attack, which disrupted the Kyiv metro system and prompted local authorities to introduce remote work in some schools and kindergartens.
In the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, a child died “as a result of the attack,” Zaporizhzhia Gov. Ivan Fedorov said in a post on Telegram.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X that the attacks were “cynical and calculated.” He added that more than 450 drones and over 30 missiles targeted “everything that sustains normal life, everything the Russians want to deprive us of.”
“It is precisely the civilian and energy infrastructure that is the main target of Russia’s strikes ahead of the heating season,” he said before calling on the United States, Europe, and the G7 to deliver air defense systems and enforce sanctions.
He also sent his condolences to the family of the child killed in Zaporizhzhia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on April 22, 2025. Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP via Getty Images
Parts of Donetsk, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Odesa, Dnipro, Kirovohrad, and Kherson were also hit during the attacks, the Ukrainian leader said.
Moscow’s Ministry of Defence said in a post on Telegram that the attacks were in response to Kyiv’s “attacks on civilian targets in Russia.”
“In response to terrorist attacks by the Kyiv regime on civilian facilities in Russia, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a massive strike overnight using long-range precision weapons launched from ground and air platforms—including Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missiles—as well as strike drones, targeting energy infrastructure facilities that supported the operation of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex,” the ministry said. “The objectives of the strike were achieved. All designated targets were hit.”
Local officials in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, said in an Oct. 10 post on Telegram that a woman had been injured after her car was attacked by a Ukrainian drone.
U.S. President Donald Trump is considering whether to supply Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles. He also said that he does not want the Russia–Ukraine war to escalate.
On Oct. 6, he said he had “pretty much“ made a decision on the issue but did not elaborate as to what that decision was.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Oct. 2 that supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine would represent a “completely new, qualitatively new stage of escalation, including in relations between Russia and the United States.”
Putin said that Ukraine would need direct participation from U.S. military personnel to use Tomahawk missiles.
The missiles have a range of about 1,000 miles, according to Raytheon, which would allow Ukraine to strike targets as far away as Moscow if equipped with the U.S.-made weapons.
