A Russian strike drone hit a five-story residential apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia early Sunday morning, Oct. 25, injuring six people, destroying multiple apartments, and damaging a nearby private nursing home, regional authorities reported.
Head of the Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration Nataliia Zabolotna announced on Telegram that incoming fire struck the urban residential quarter shortly before dawn.
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The kinetic impact caused structural collapses between the second and third floors of the multi-story apartment complex, completely destroying four apartments and damaging passenger vehicles parked across the residential courtyard.
Regional authorities confirmed that six civilians sustained injuries in the strike, with one victim transported to a regional medical center for inpatient care.
More than 60 personnel from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) and 14 specialized vehicles deployed to the impact site to extinguish localized fires, clear structural rubble, and inspect the structural integrity of neighboring properties.
Damage to nursing home, infrastructure, and private residences
Concurrently with the residential strike, the aerial bombardment damaged an adjacent private elderly care boarding house. Emergency responders and civil defense detachments evacuated 15 elderly residents from the damaged care facility to ensure their safety, while specialized psychologists from the DSNS provided immediate psychological assistance to the displaced residents.
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Zabolotna reported that the wider wave of strikes across Vinnytsia region also inflicted physical damage on critical municipal life-support installations, civil infrastructure facilities, and private residential homes.
Firefighting units suppressed all active combustion zones across the affected municipal sectors, with utility and recovery crews continuing debris-removal operations.
On Saturday, Oct. 24, Russian drone struck a cattle-breeding agricultural enterprise in the Konotop district of Sumy region, killing a 31-year-old female farm worker and injuring four other people, regional authorities reported.
Concurrently , Russian forces launched an aerial drone attack against the Pokrovske community in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region, injuring four civilians.
In Kharkiv region, a Russian missile hit a commercial warehouse in the city of Lozova, killing a 45-year-old man and wounding two others aged 26 and 43. Emergency medical crews attempted resuscitation at the scene, but the victim died of severe blast trauma as specialized firefighting units worked to extinguish a fire that engulfed the storage facility.
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