Over the past 24 hours, Russian attacks have hit Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Chernihiv and Sumy, causing widespread damage to homes and infrastructure. On Wednesday morning, Ukrainian authorities announced that three people were killed and 23 civilians, including a one-and-a-half-month-old baby, were injured.
In the Kherson region, Russian drones killed three people and injured 14, including a child, said Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the regional military administration.
The destruction included eight apartment blocks, 29 private houses, administrative buildings, a health care facility, garages and several civilian cars.
A one-and-a-half-month-old baby was injured in the Dnieper region of Kherson, Prokudin reported.
In the Korabel district, a Russian drone dropped explosives near a trolleybus on line 9, shattering its windshield, the regional administration said. Fortunately, none of the passengers were injured.
Kharkiv: forced evacuation of families with children
In the Kharkiv Oblast, Russian forces attacked five towns, injuring a 54-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman, the oblast's governor, Oleh Synehubov, said on Wednesday morning.
According to him, the Russians used 11 Geran-2 drones, one Lancet drone and two FPV drones [ang. First Person View, czyli z podglądem na żywo z perspektywy pierwszej osoby].
Syniehubov said that over the last 24 hours, 179 people reported to the evacuation point in the city of Lozova, of which 36 are still there. On Tuesday evening, he wrote on Telegram that the Regional Defense Council had decided forcibly evacuate families with children from the city of Kupiansk.
“At the meeting of the Regional Defense Council, a decision was made about… forced evacuation of families with children from 27 towns. In total, we will have to resettle 601 children – that's 409 families. We call on families with minor children to save their lives and leave dangerous areas!” he wrote.
In this photo shared by Ukrainian emergency services, rescuers extinguish a fire at a hospital damaged by a Russian attack in Kharkov, October 14, 2025.Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP/Associated Press/East News / East News
Zaporozhye: 649 attacks in one day
Russian forces carried out military operations in the Zaporizhia Oblast on Tuesday, October 14 649 attacks on 16 towns, injuring a 63-year-old man, said Governor Ivan Fedorov.
The attacks included nine airstrikes, 423 drone attacks – mainly FPV, four MLRS missiles [czyli samobieżnymi systemami artyleryjskimi zdolnymi do odpalania dużej liczby pocisków rakietowych w krótkim czasie] and over 200 artillery salvos, targeting a dozen or so towns in total.
The damage affected dozens of houses, vehicles and infrastructure.
The north of Ukraine is burning
The head of the local military administration, Vyacheslav Chaus, reported that in the Chernihiv Oblast, Russian troops attacked gas stations and residential areas at night using combat drones.
— At night, the Russians attacked gas stations in Chernihiv and the surrounding area with combat drones, he wrote on Telegram in the morning of October 15.
In the border town of Siemianówka, a drone hit a residential building, causing a fire that firefighters managed to control. In the Niżyny region, another drone attack caused a fire in a civil infrastructure facility.
Czaus reported that for the last 24 hours Russian forces struck the Chernihiv Oblast 37 times, attacking 18 towns mainly using FPV drones and explosives dropped from drones. Work is underway to restore power supplies, but power outages remain across the region.
Beginning on Tuesday morning, October 14, Russian forces carried out over 40 strikes in 23 towns Sumy Oblast, the regional administration announced on Facebook on Wednesday morning. Most attacks were recorded in the Sumy and Shostka regions.
According to the administration's account, the attacks included guided bomb strikes [wyposażonymi w stery i system kierowania]FPV drones and other types of unmanned aerial vehicles.
A 31-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman were injured in the drone attacks.
The military authorities of the Sumy region reported that civilian infrastructure was damaged in many places.
In a separate message on Telegram, the head of the Sumy Oblast administration, Oleh Hryhorov, announced that a Russian drone was in Putivl. he attacked on purpose civilian vehicle, injuring three people – a 63-year-old woman and two men, aged 32 and 49. They all went to hospital.
