A Russian drone strike on a residential apartment building in the city of Synelnykove in Dnipropetrovsk region killed four people and injured 13 others, regional authorities confirmed, while separate drone attacks on Kharkiv killed one person and wounded four, including three emergency rescue workers.
Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Hanzha announced that incoming fire struck a multi-story residential complex in Synelnykove on Saturday evening, Oct. 24, igniting a blaze across the fourth floor and inflicting extensive structural damage on nearby retail shops and parked civilian vehicles.
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Three civilians died immediately at the impact site, while a 62-year-old man succumbed to critical wounds in a local hospital on Sunday morning, Oct. 25, raising the casualty toll to four.
Regional health authorities confirmed that 13 civilians sustained injuries, including an 11-year-old girl.
Four patients remain hospitalized in serious condition, with surgical teams stabilizing two women and a man before arranging medical transfers to a regional clinical facility in the city of Dnipro. A 50-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man were among those admitted in critical condition.
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Drone strikes and secondary attacks in Kharkiv
Concurrently in northeastern Ukraine, Russian forces launched a sequence of drone strikes across three urban districts of Kharkiv on Saturday evening and overnight into Sunday, killing one civilian and wounding four others.
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Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov reported that a turbojet-powered strike drone hit the Novobavarskyi district, killing one person, injuring four others, and setting a single-story structure ablaze.
In Kharkiv’s Osnovianskyi district, strike drones targeted a commercial shopping center, triggering an extensive structural blaze. Concurrently, an unmanned aerial munition struck a civilian commercial enterprise in the Industrialnyi district, igniting secondary fires and injuring a civilian worker.
As units from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) deployed to contain the blazes and clear debris, Russian forces launched a secondary strike targeting the operational area of the responding emergency detachments.
The repeat impact wounded two rescue personnel and destroyed an DSNS fire-tanker truck, while a third firefighter sustained injuries while battling the major fire at the shopping center.
Escalating weekend barrages
The bombardments in Synelnykove and Kharkiv coincided with broader Russian standoff strikes across Ukrainian residential settlements and emergency services over the weekend.
Early Sunday morning, an adversary strike drone struck a five-story residential building in the central city of Vinnytsia, injuring six civilians, destroying four apartments between the second and third floors, and forcing the emergency evacuation of 15 elderly residents from an adjacent private care home.
Earlier on Saturday, daytime drone strikes in Sumy region killed a 31-year-old female farm worker at a cattle-breeding facility in Konotop district, while a separate drone strike in Dnipropetrovsk region’s Pokrovske community left a 14-year-old boy in critical condition. Concurrently, a missile impact killed a 45-year-old commercial warehouse employee in Lozova, Kharkiv region.
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