Ivan Fedorov
Ivan Fedorov is a Ukrainian politician who has served as mayor of Zaporizhzhia since 2020. After parts of Zaporizhzhia Oblast came under Russian occupation in 2022, he remained in the Ukrainian-controlled city and continued in the role.
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Russian missile strike hits residential area in Zaporizhzhia, injuring five including a child
Russian forces struck a residential area in Zaporizhzhia around 5 a.m. on 17 October with multiple missile strikes, damaging multi-storey apartment buildings and injuring five civilians, including an 11-year-old girl. The blast wave also damaged the office of the Suspilne Zaporizhzhia broadcaster, though no staff were inside. The attack was part of a broader overnight Russian assault on multiple Ukrainian cities that also hit Kryvyi Rih and Kherson.
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Zelensky says Ukraine ready to meet US negotiators in coming days
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine is ready to meet with American negotiators in the coming days and that he has conveyed the proposal to US President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. In his address he framed the talks as part of ongoing team-level negotiations on paths to peace, voiced Ukraine's support for a US-backed energy ceasefire, and stressed that Russia must also join such an agreement.
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Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data center in Vladimir, third strike in four days
Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex data center in the Russian city of Vladimir overnight on October 11, forcing Yandex to halt operations at the facility and knocking out a wide range of its consumer and cloud services. The attack is the third on a Yandex data center within four days, following strikes on facilities in Sasovo, Ryazan region on October 8 and in the Kaluga region on October 9. Outages hit the Alice voice assistant, Yandex Music, Telemost, Yandex Dom, taxi and other consumer apps, and more than 80 Yandex Cloud services, with disruptions reported in Russian cities and in Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Serbia.
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Russian glide bombs strike Zaporizhzhia residential building; at least 20 killed, including children
On the morning of 10 October, Russian forces struck the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with five KAB guided aerial bombs, hitting residential buildings. Casualty figures evolved over the day as rescue operations continued: by Sunday, Ukrainian officials reported at least 20 people killed, including three children, with 18 to 32 injured. President Volodymyr Zelensky linked the attack to a recent US-Russia deal on Russian diesel exports, calling it Moscow's "thank-you" for the lifting of sanctions. Zaporizhzhia declared 11 October a day of mourning.
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Russian drone strikes Kyiv's Northern Bridge, injuring two and closing a second Dnipro crossing
A Russian drone hit the Northern Bridge in Kyiv on the morning of 3 October, damaging the road surface and trolleybus contact network, injuring two people, and closing the bridge to traffic from the left to the right bank. The strike came a day after repeated Russian drone attacks forced the full closure of the Southern Bridge, leaving the capital with two of its main Dnipro crossings out of normal operation.
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Russian drones hit Zaporizhzhia, damaging heritage-listed university building, shopping mall, and apartment blocks
Russian drone strikes hit Zaporizhzhia overnight on September 21, 2026, damaging two nine-story residential buildings, the Intrade shopping mall on Soborny Avenue, and three buildings of Zaporizhzhia National University, including a direct hit on its 1902 heritage-listed Building No. 3. Most Ukrainian sources report five civilians wounded, though later updates cite six. The strike was part of a nationwide overnight barrage of 172 strike UAVs and other munitions, with hits recorded at 14 locations across Ukraine.
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Russian drone strike destroys Zaporizhzhia house, two civilians killed
A Russian drone strike on a private residential sector of Zaporizhzhia on the night of 11–12 September destroyed one house, killed two civilians and injured others. The head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov, reported the casualties and a wider pattern of oblast-wide bombardment.
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Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia Oblast kill at least one, hit shopping centre over 5–7 September
Russian forces pounded Zaporizhzhia city and dozens of settlements across Zaporizhzhia Oblast on 5–7 September with drones, artillery, MLRS and airstrikes, killing at least one civilian and wounding dozens. A drone strike set a shopping centre on fire during the night of 6–7 September, and a separate drone attack on the city on 6 September killed a 74-year-old man and injured three other people.
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Russian drones hit residential building in Zaporizhzhia in overnight attack on multiple oblasts
Russian forces struck Zaporizhzhia with drones overnight on 3–4 September, hitting a multi-storey residential building and starting a fire in two apartments, as part of a broader overnight drone barrage detected across several Ukrainian oblasts. The head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov, reported the fire and published footage of the aftermath on Telegram. Casualty reporting shifted across the day: initial accounts said no one was hurt in the building strike, while later reports described one woman injured.
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Zelensky offers Zaporizhzhia OVA head Fedorov the post of head of Ukraine's Restoration Agency
President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration (OVA), the position of head of the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development. Fedorov confirmed receiving the offer during a report marking 1,000 days in office on Thursday, September 3, 2026, and said the role would combine two lines of responsibility, with him remaining co-chair of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Defense Council. No official decision on his dismissal from the OVA or his appointment to the new post has yet been made.
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Russian strikes hit 13 oblasts overnight; drone strike on Odesa apartment building injures 17, including 3 children
On the night of September 3, Russian attacks caused destruction or damage in 13 Ukrainian oblasts, President Volodymyr Zelensky reported via social media. A drone hit a residential high-rise in Odesa, injuring 17 people including three children, while strikes on Obukhiv and Boryspil districts in Kyiv Oblast sparked a fire at a pharmaceutical warehouse. Zelensky said Russia is continuing to escalate and called on partners to strengthen Ukraine's air defense, including anti-missile and anti-drone systems.