Russian missile strikes on Kyiv kill one, hit area near metro station and university

Mixed · 2Russia attacked Kyiv with missiles late on Monday 26 October, and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said there had been a strike next to an underground station. 1 2 Mixed · 2One person was killed, near a supermarket according to Klitschko, and Ukraine's state rescue services said a body was found by a heavily damaged apartment building. 3 2 Mixed · 2The injury toll differed between reports: AFP, carried by the Straits Times, cited Klitschko as saying eight were wounded, while Reuters material in The Independent's live coverage put the number at 10, including students at a dormitory of the State Trade and Economics University on the east bank of the Dnipro; nine were in hospital, three seriously. 3 2

Right · 1Klitschko said a blast wave shattered windows in an intensive care unit and in two wards at another medical facility in the same district, with no patients or staff hurt; a 20-year-old woman was wounded near a university dormitory. 3 Mixed · 2President Volodymyr Zelensky said ballistic missiles hit a university's grounds, Kyoto Park, the area near a metro station and residential buildings, and that "there is not a single military facility nearby". 3 2 Right · 1Early Reuters reports said an emergency crew had come under attack, that unofficial Telegram channels showed damage at an underground station, that other posts claimed energy sites were hit, and that Reuters witnesses saw power cut in districts east of the Dnipro; these images and posts were unverified. 1

Left · 1Zelensky said the number of casualties was not yet exactly known; The Independent reports he had criticised the US earlier that day for delays in issuing Patriot air missiles for Ukraine. 2 Left · 1Russian strikes the same day also killed two people in Kharkiv and one in Pavlohrad, according to Ukrainian officials, and explosions were again heard in Kyiv on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said. 2 Mixed · 2The attack came hours before a localised ceasefire began around Russian-occupied Oleshky in Kherson region to allow humanitarian aid and evacuations; Russia's defence ministry and Ukrainian rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets both confirmed it started at 4am Moscow time on Tuesday. 3 2

Mixed · 2Moscow said it would consider more local humanitarian truces but would not slow the overall pace of the war, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said planned three-way talks with Ukraine and the US next month place no restrictions on military action. 3 2 Mixed · 2Russia has intensified drone and missile attacks in recent weeks, keeping Kyiv, a city of around three million, in near-constant alert, and a UN-mandated commission separately reported that Moscow has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine. 3 2