Russian attacks in Ukraine killed at least 8 people and cut off electricity to 1 million people

Russia attacks Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Volyn and Rivne as Moscow presses its campaign against Ukraine's power grid.

Ukrainian officials said the Russian strikes killed at least eight people and injured 60, targeted two shopping malls and knocked out power to more than a million people.

The attacks on Friday attacked 9 districts. Kharkiv governor Oleh Sinihobov said that in the east of Kharkiv city, a 71-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man were killed and 12 people were injured in attacks in three areas.

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End of list Two people were killed in Kramatorsk, a front-line city in Donetsk region, and two others in southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region.

In the northwestern region of Volyn, which borders Poland, a drone attack on a food processing facility killed one person and wounded eight, Governor Roman Romaniuk said.

Drones also hit a customs terminal and set fire to about 10 trucks in the town of Kovel, on the main road from Kyiv to Poland.

In Rivne, drones attacked a large shopping center and other sites, killing one person and wounding seven, regional governor Alexander Koval said.

A shopping center in Soumi, close to the front line, was also targeted.

Ukraine's energy ministry said repair crews had restored power to more than a million people who lost it on Friday.

In Velin, about 370,000 households lost power, with at least 100,000 units supplied since then.

Mayor Andriy Razumovsky said the blackout could last at least 24 hours in the regional capital, Lutsk.

Many parts of Rivne also remained without electricity.

Russia's military commander told President Vladimir Putin on Friday that the military has allocated the necessary assets to carry out its airstrikes against Ukraine's energy system.

Meanwhile, the United Nations said on Friday that civilian casualties in Ukraine had risen sharply.

At least 328 civilians were killed and 2,105 injured in Ukraine last month, an 85 percent increase from September 2025, according to UN human rights monitors.

The report states that between January and September 2026, 2,570 civilians were killed and 15,211 were injured, which is almost 60 percent more than the same period last year and more than double the number in 2024.

"The first two weeks of October have been one of the deadliest periods for civilians in recent years," said Daniel Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Watch in Ukraine.