Russian missile kills 19 in Ukrainian flats, including five children
Thirty flats were destroyed in Pryluky as families slept, with three one-year-old boys among the dead. Rescuers continued searching into the evening after a missile and drone assault killed 25 people across Ukraine.
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A Russian missile killed 19 people, including five children, in an apartment block in northern Ukraine as families slept on Wednesday, destroying 30 flats and leaving rescuers searching for more victims.
The missile struck a five-storey building in Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region north of Kyiv, early on October 7, 2026. Two entrance sections of the block were destroyed, police said. Three of the children killed were one-year-old boys.
The toll rose as rescue crews recovered bodies through the day. A fifth child's body was found late in the afternoon, bringing the number of dead to 19. Rubble clearance continued into the evening, and the final toll was not yet established.
The attack was part of a wider Russian missile and drone assault that killed 25 people across Ukraine, with deaths also reported in Kyiv, Kremenchuk and Oleksandriya. Pryluky accounted for more than three-quarters of those killed. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia fired 70 missiles across the country and that energy infrastructure was a key target.
Zelensky called the assault one of Russia's "most vile strikes". Russia's defence ministry described a "massive strike" on military-industrial facilities, but made no mention of Pryluky or the destroyed residential block.
At 17:40 local time, before the latest death toll was reported, Zelensky said 55 people had been wounded, including seven children. Fifteen people had been rescued, one of them a child. Some residents were still not answering their phones.
