Russian attacks on three Ukrainian oblasts kill two people and injure 27

Two people have been killed and another 27 injured in Russian attacks on Donetsk, Kherson and Kharkiv oblasts on 23 October.

Source: Donetsk Oblast Military Administration; Kherson Oblast Military Administration; Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration

Details: Russian forces killed two people in Donetsk Oblast: one in Kramatorsk and one in Sloviansk. Another 18 people were injured: 14 in Kramatorsk and four in Sloviansk.

Six people were injured in Russian attacks on Kherson Oblast. Russian forces targeted critical and social infrastructure facilities as well as residential areas across the oblast. A high-rise residential building, a house and cars were damaged.

Three people were injured in Kharkiv Oblast: a 12-year-old girl in Kharkiv and two men in Cherkaski Tyshky.

Another four people were suffering from shock: three in Kharkiv, including a 13-year-old boy, and a woman in Blyzniuky.

Medics also treated a nine-year-old girl who had been injured in Izium on 22 October.

According to the Oblast Military Administration, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv and 15 other settlements in the oblast over the past day, using missiles, guided aerial bombs and drones, among other weapons.

Background: Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 126 Shahed and Gerbera attack drones, S-8000 Banderol/Dan-T drone- and air-launched cruise missiles and decoy UAVs on the night of 23-24 October. Strikes were recorded at 14 locations.

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