One person was killed and 22 others were injured, including four children, in a ballistic strike launched by Russia across six districts of Kyiv, beginning on the evening of October 21, Ukraine’s chief emergency service reported on October 22. Visuals showed fires breaking out and damage to residential buildings, vehicles, transport infrastructure, medical vehicles and a monastery across Kyiv.
According to sources, Ukraine is facing a severe shortage of Patriot interceptors, one of the few systems capable of reliably intercepting Russian ballistic missiles. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that limited supplies of PAC-2 and PAC-3 interceptors leave Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure more exposed to Russian strikes.
In Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district, one person was killed and a child was hospitalised. Five others were injured as residential and non-residential buildings caught fire, and homes and vehicles were damaged. The Russian strikes in the Darnytskyi district damaged transport infrastructure. However, no casualties were reported.
Eight people, including three children, were injured in the Pecherskyi district, where buildings, ambulances and a monastery were damaged. Another six people were injured in the Holosiivskyi district after a strike hit a non-residential building. Emergency authorities noted that information on the consequences of the Russian attack was still being updated and assessed.
Meanwhile, power restriction schedules for industries and hourly block schedules of up to two stages are being implemented until Thursday. Russian drones reportedly damaged power facilities in the Khmelnytskyi region. New power outages were also caused by Russian strikes in Kyiv and seven other regions.
The power outages come against the backdrop of a Russian drone attack on an energy facility in the Poltava region, leaving 6,000 consumers without power.