A Russian missile struck a commercial warehouse in the city of Lozova in Kharkiv region on Saturday, Oct. 24, killing a 45-year-old man and injuring two others, regional authorities reported.
Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov confirmed that emergency medical teams attempted to resuscitate the 45-year-old victim, but he succumbed to critical injuries sustained in the blast.
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Two other men, aged 26 and 43, sustained wounds and were transported to regional medical facilities for inpatient treatment.
The missile impact ignited a fire across the storage facility, prompting specialized firefighting units and civil defense crews from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) to deploy to extinguish the blaze and clear structural debris.
“Medics fought for the life of the victim, but the injuries proved fatal,” Syniehubov stated in an official dispatch.
Infrastructure strike in Zaporizhzhia
Concurrently on Saturday, Russian forces launched an aerial attack targeting an infrastructure facility in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, regional officials confirmed.
According to preliminary assessments released by Mykhailo Semikin of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, the strike wounded two civilians and damaged civilian vehicles parked in the vicinity of the impact zone.
Nationwide weekend barrages
The daylight strikes on Lozova and Zaporizhzhia followed an extensive overnight air assault launched by Russian forces between 6:00 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, and Saturday morning, Oct. 24.
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Earlier Saturday morning, a Russian aerial attack struck a private residential home in Kyiv’s northern Obolonskyi district, injuring two civilians after capital air defense units engaged high-speed turbojet-powered strike drones over the metropolitan area around 3:42 a.m.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force Command, Russian forces launched 126 strike and decoy unmanned aerial systems against Ukrainian territory overnight.
The incoming wave included 61 high-speed turbojet-powered Shahed variants, alongside S-8000 Banderol and Dan-T compact cruise systems, Gerbera drones, and Parodiya decoy platforms staged from seven locations across the Russian Federation and occupied territories.
By 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, Ukrainian air defenses had shot down or electronically suppressed 101 aerial targets nationwide, including 50 turbojet-powered Shahed munitions, while registering impacts across 14 distinct locations and falling debris at five sites.
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