Key facts
- Russian forces killed at least five people and injured 61 across Ukraine in attacks over the past day, local authorities reported on Oct. 4.
- Ukraine's Air Force reported shooting down 172 aerial targets, including 123 drones.
- In Sumy Oblast, one person was killed and 29 injured by Russian attacks, including a glide bomb strike on the regional capital.
- In Kharkiv Oblast, a 42-year-old man was killed and eight more people injured by a Banderol missile strike.
- Mayor Vitalii Klitschko reported a Russian drone struck the Northern Bridge in Kyiv on Oct. 4.
Russian forces killed at least five people and injured 61 across Ukraine in attacks over the past day, local authorities reported on Oct. 4. The assaults included drone and glide bomb strikes on Sumy Oblast, as well as attacks in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Donetsk Oblasts.
Overnight, Russia launched 205 attack drones of various types, including 49 jet-powered drones, according to Ukraine's Air Force. The Air Force stated that Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 172 targets, comprising 123 Shahed-type, Gerbera, and other drones, along with two Banderol loitering munitions. Strikes were recorded at 13 locations, while debris from downed targets fell at three others.
In Sumy Oblast, one person was killed and 29 injured by Russian attacks across the border, with most of the wounded coming from a glide bomb strike on the regional capital. Russian FPV drones killed two civilians in two separate attacks outside the city of Zaporizhzhia, regional authorities said, with each attack injuring one more person respectively.
In Kharkiv Oblast, a 42-year-old man was killed and eight more people injured by a Banderol missile strike. Four more people were injured in Kharkiv Oblast over the previous 24 hours.
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast reported one person killed and three other injured in the city of Nikopol, while another man was injured in the city of Pavlohrad. Five people, including a ten-year-old boy, were injured in Russian drone attacks on Chernihiv Oblast. In Kherson Oblast, daily Russian attacks on settlements on the Ukrainian-controlled side of the Dnipro River injured six people.
In Kyiv, two people were injured, one of whom hospitalized, after Russia's drone attack on the Northern Bridge on Oct. 4, city mayor Vitalii Klitschko said. One person was injured in the front-line city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia had deployed more than 1,900 attack drones, 1,700 glide bombs, and 25 missiles against Ukraine in the preceding week.