Symbolic imageDrone strikes kill three in Ukraine as both sides report new attacks
Russian drones killed three people in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions on Wednesday, local officials said. Ukrainian strikes hit Luhansk and Bryansk, according to Russian and Russian-installed officials.
On Wednesday, 21 October, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said a Russian drone hit a 24-story residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district, killing one person and injuring another. In the village of Korotych in the Kharkiv region, drones killed an 81-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man and injured 11 others, according to regional head Oleh Syniehubov. Meduza adds that a drone hit a university building in Kremenchuk, injuring three people, according to preliminary reports.
Further attacks overnight
Klitschko said 15 people were injured in Kyiv in the night to 22 October, including two 15-year-olds. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 630 drones were headed for the Moscow region between 20:30 and 4:00, that 163 came close to the city and that two people were injured (Le Monde).
Luhansk and Bryansk
Leonid Pasechnik, head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, said Ukrainian forces badly damaged the Luhansk telephone company building and that people may be trapped. He said three residents were killed in 24 hours. Reuters reports, citing the governor, one person killed and two injured in Russia's Bryansk region.
Talks resume in prospect
Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine favors resuming trilateral talks with Russia and the United States. The Kremlin said it was ready for talks in mid-November, after US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg.