Awaaz Punjab's first report of this overnight strike, filed while city officials had issued no casualty toll, can be read here. Kyiv authorities have since given a toll of 15 wounded, and Russian officials have given their account of the drone barrage toward Moscow. Read the first overnight report
Missiles struck Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, and Kyiv authorities have now given the toll that was missing from the first reports: the strikes wounded 15 people in the capital, eight of whom needed hospitalisation, Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko said, according to AFP and Reuters reporting. Klitschko said the strikes damaged metro infrastructure at the Pivdenny Bridge over the Dnipro River, and officials said traffic across the bridge had been restricted, Reuters reported. Ukraine's Air Force had warned in the early hours of more ballistic missiles toward Kyiv and told residents to stay in shelters.
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The overnight wave followed a separate Russian attack on Kyiv on Wednesday evening that wounded six people, Kyiv authorities said. Elsewhere in Ukraine, a Russian strike killed a woman and injured four other people in the Kharkiv region in the northeast, Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram, and a drone hit energy infrastructure in the Kremenchuk area of the Poltava region, a local official said on Telegram, without giving details, Reuters reported.
In Russia, Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that 630 drones were sent toward the capital region during the night, that most were downed at long range, and that two people were wounded near Moscow, Reuters reported. In Lipetsk, some 400 km (250 miles) south of Moscow, a man was injured as drones hit apartment buildings and a medical facility, Governor Igor Artamonov said on Telegram — damage Awaaz Punjab reported in its first overnight story.
What is solid
- Kyiv's mayor said 15 people were wounded in the capital overnight, eight hospitalised (via AFP and Reuters).
- Kyiv officials said metro infrastructure at the Pivdenny Bridge was damaged and bridge traffic restricted (Reuters).
- Moscow's mayor said 630 drones were sent toward the capital region and two people were wounded near Moscow (via Reuters).
What is only claimed
- The intended targets of the strikes and drone barrage, and each side's claims about what was hit, come from the officials named and have not been independently verified.
- Ukraine and Russia each deny deliberately targeting civilians; claims about specific strikes remain attributed to the officials and outlets named in this report.
The exchange came hours after US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg, after talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Oslo. The Kremlin said Russia was 'in principle' ready to resume trilateral talks with Ukraine and the United States in mid-November, while warning there was little 'substance' in the Ukrainian and European proposals Witkoff brought, AFP and Reuters reported — diplomacy Awaaz Punjab covered on Wednesday.
Sources: Reuters, 'Russia, Ukraine exchange strikes as US envoy leaves after talks', October 22, 2026 (via Devdiscourse syndication); AFP, 'Missiles strike Ukraine's capital after US envoy visits Russia' and 'Kyiv and Moscow trade attacks after US envoy visits Russia', October 22, 2026 (via Morning Chronicle and Stockholms Dagblad syndication). All casualty and damage figures are attributed to the officials named in the text.