Fire in a five-story residential building in Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast, after Russian strikes on October 24, 2026. Photo courtesy of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/DSNS of Sumy Oblast.Russian drones, missiles and guided bombs struck cities across Ukraine between October 23 and 24, killing civilians in five oblasts. Regional reports compiled by the Kyiv Independent put the toll through the morning of October 24 at four killed and 78 injured. Overnight into October 24, Russia launched 126 drones, 61 of them jet-powered, and air defenses downed or suppressed 101.On the morning of October 24, a drone destroyed a one-story private house in Kyiv’s Obolon district and started a fire, injuring two people, one of whom was hospitalized. Ballistic missiles struck the capital two days earlier.In the north, a Russian strike on an enterprise in Chernihiv on October 23 killed a man and injured 18 people, seven of whom were hospitalized, regional head Viacheslav Chaus said. On October 24, drones hit a warehouse in the city, injuring two women, and Gerbera drones damaged administrative buildings in Novhorod-Siverskyi.Over the 24 hours to the morning of October 24, Russian forces carried out more than 40 attacks on 25 settlements in 16 communities of Sumy Oblast, injuring seven people in the Hlukhiv community. On October 24, a drone struck a cattle farm in the Buryn community, killing a 31-year-old worker. A drone also hit a five-story apartment building in Hlukhiv, setting an apartment and the roof on fire, and rescuers saved three people.Russia struck energy infrastructure and a civilian enterprise in the Zhytomyr community, with no casualties. Drones set fires across western Ukraine earlier this month.In the east, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv and 15 settlements in the region with missiles, guided bombs and drones, regional head Oleh Syniehubov said. A 12-year-old girl was wounded and two men were wounded in Cherkaski Tyshky, while four people, including a 13-year-old boy, suffered acute stress reactions.Strikes damaged two enterprises, an apartment building, four private houses, seven cars, a circus building, an office, a gas station and a garage. On October 24, a missile strike on warehouses in Lozova killed a 45-year-old man and injured two others, and Russian forces twice hit a shopping center in the city’s Osnovianskyi district.In Donetsk Oblast, regional head Vadym Filashkin reported that attacks killed one person and injured 14 in Kramatorsk, where 27 apartment buildings, three administrative buildings and an enterprise were damaged. Police said three children were among the wounded. In Sloviansk, one person was killed, four were injured, and three apartment buildings, two private houses, two shops, a gas station and six cars were damaged. Aerial bombs also fell on Sloviansk last week.Russian forces attacked four districts of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast nearly 70 times on October 23, killing one person in Dnipro and injuring 11, regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said. On October 24, a drone hit an apartment building in Synelnykove, killing three people and injuring 14, including an 11-year-old girl. In the Nikopol district, attacks killed two women and injured five, including a 14-year-old boy.In the south, Russian forces attacked Kherson and 35 settlements in the region, injuring six people and damaging an apartment building, a private house and cars, regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said. In Odesa Oblast, Governor Oleh Kiper said strikes on October 23 damaged civilian, recreational and industrial facilities, injuring three people. In Zaporizhzhia, a daytime strike on October 24 hit an infrastructure facility, injuring two people.Ukraine’s General Staff reported Russian losses of 1,980 personnel on October 23, bringing the total to about 1,576,600. Ukraine does not publish its own losses.The General Staff also confirmed hitting the main production building of Proton-Electrotex in Oryol between October 23 and 24, saying the strike hampers production of cruise and ballistic missile components. It also reported strikes on the Tolyattikauchuk complex in Tolyatti and an aircraft at Yeysk airfield.Ukrainian human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said, on October 24, that Ukraine and Russia agreed on a ceasefire for a humanitarian mission in occupied Oleshky, beginning October 27 at 3:00 a.m. Kyiv time.On October 23, Rep. Gregory Meeks and Sen. Peter Welch led four other Democratic lawmakers in a letter demanding that Elon Musk explain why Ukrainian forces lost access on October 13 to Starshield, the military version of Starlink. They cited reports that Musk personally ordered a speed cap, despite his statement that limits are decided by the U.S. military and the president. The lawmakers gave Musk until October 31 to respond. On October 22, President Donald Trump said Musk had already lifted the limits.Bloomberg reported on October 23 that Germany is negotiating to buy thousands of deep-strike weapons from several European manufacturers as deliveries of U.S. Tomahawk missiles are delayed. The talks include a contract worth more than €1 billion ($1.12 billion) with U.S. startup Covenant for its Anthem ground-launched cruise missile, as well as co-production and purchase of Ukrainian Bars missiles. 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