Topic: Emergencies
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Russian strikes on Sloviansk kill and wound dozens; rescue work continues
Russian forces struck the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast on 17 October 2026 with aerial bombs and other weapons, damaging 22 residential buildings and killing and wounding residents, according to Ukrainian officials. Search-and-rescue work was halted overnight due to the security situation and resumed on the morning of 18 October, with bodies reported still under the rubble. Casualty figures differ between the State Emergency Service (DSNS) and the local military administration.
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Russian airstrikes hit Kherson residential district, killing ambulance driver and wounding civilians including two children
Russian forces struck the Korabelnyi district of Kherson with eight guided aerial bombs in two airstrikes within roughly an hour on the morning of October 17. A 64-year-old driver of an emergency medical service brigade was killed in a repeat strike that hit after medics had arrived at the scene. A paramedic and a nurse were among the wounded, and casualties included an 11-year-old girl and a one-month-old infant from a family of three hospitalized in moderate condition. A 58-year-old man was later hospitalized in a coma with skull fractures and an open head injury, and was reported to have died in hospital. Ten multi-storey residential buildings, a supermarket, administrative buildings and a Red Cross office were damaged; rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble.
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Russian drone strike on Uman hits residential building, injures five
Russian drones struck Cherkasy Oblast overnight on 15–16 October, hitting the city of Uman at three locations and causing fires in a multi-storey residential building, a destroyed guardhouse, and a commercial warehouse area. Five people were injured, three of whom were hospitalised. The same wave of drone attacks also hit Lutsk, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chortkiv, and Kyiv.
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Russian attacks destroy Epicentr's last major logistics hub in Khmelnytskyi
Russian forces attacked Epicentr's logistics distribution center in Khmelnytskyi ten times on 13 October, causing five large-scale fires and destroying about 85% of the stored goods. No employees were injured, but the company said the strike puts thousands of jobs at risk and has nationwide supply implications.
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Russian drone strike hits Rivne university, injuring dozens
On the morning of 13 October a Russian drone struck a building of Rivne State Humanitarian University in the centre of Rivne, setting it on fire, damaging the second floor and façade, and injuring dozens of people. Most of the wounded were university administrative staff; all students were in shelters at the time. The Faculty of Music Arts building was almost completely burned out, and Ukrainian authorities opened a war-crimes investigation.
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Kyiv's water utility warns of growing supply disruptions from power-grid fluctuations and 40% staff loss
The deputy general director of Kyivvodokanal said the capital's water supply has been failing more often because voltage fluctuations are damaging the utility's 1970s-era electrical equipment, and that prolonged blackouts combined with frost could leave residents without running water and trigger a sanitation crisis within days. He guaranteed tanker-truck delivery of drinking water but could not guarantee that water would reach taps, and warned that a full stoppage of sewage removal could cause a public-health emergency in about three days.
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Russian drones hit railway and energy infrastructure in Zhytomyr Oblast, no casualties reported
Russian forces struck the northern part of Zhytomyr Oblast with drones on the night of 12 October and again during the day, damaging railway and energy infrastructure in the Korosten district, as well as residential buildings in the Korosten and Ovruch communities. Fires broke out at two locations on a transport facility in Korosten and were extinguished by rescuers, who had to withdraw several times due to the threat of repeat strikes. As of the morning of 12 October, no information about casualties had been received.