SYNELNYKOVE, Ukraine — A Russian drone struck a residential building in the Synelnykove district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on October 24, killing three civilians and injuring 12 others, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported, The Kyiv Independent said. AFP, reporting separately on the same Saturday strikes across eastern Ukraine, gave the same figures for Synelnykove: Hanzha said on Saturday evening that three people were killed and at least 12 wounded when a Russian drone strike hit the town, setting the fourth floor of a high-rise building on fire, and that among those injured was an 11-year-old girl.
Source: The Kyiv Independent, reporting Governor Oleksandr Hanzha, Oct 24, 2026
The drone triggered a fire on the building's fourth floor and damaged nearby cars and a store, Hanzha said, according to The Kyiv Independent. Five of the injured were taken to hospital, with three — two women and one man — in serious condition and undergoing surgery, it reported. The injured child is not named in any source, and no source in this story identifies her beyond her age.
Source: The Kyiv Independent, reporting Governor Oleksandr Hanzha, Oct 24, 2026
The Synelnykove strike was part of a wider day of Russian drone and missile strikes across eastern Ukraine in which authorities said at least five people died on Saturday, AFP reported: alongside the three killed in Synelnykove, regional authorities in Sumy said a Russian drone hit a farm, killing a 31-year-old woman and injuring four others, and a 45-year-old man died when Russian missiles hit the city of Lozova in Kharkiv region, while two other men were injured, according to Kharkiv regional head Oleg Synegubov on Telegram, as reported in the fuller AFP roundup. Those Sumy and Lozova figures come from the respective regional authorities via AFP, not from independent verification.
Source: AFP via The News, reporting Governor Oleksandr Hanzha, Oct 25, 2026
The attack is the latest in a series of lethal strikes on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which borders Ukraine's front-line Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, The Kyiv Independent noted, adding that the Synelnykove district has experienced repeated attacks due to its proximity to Russian-occupied territory. It said Russia has intensified its aerial bombardments across Ukraine in October, targeting the country's power grid as winter temperatures begin to drop, and that thousands of homes in the Synelnykove area and wider Dnipropetrovsk Oblast lost power after Russian forces attacked critical energy infrastructure overnight on October 21. Russia's military had not commented on the specific Synelnykove apartment strike in the sources reviewed for this story.
Source: The Kyiv Independent, reporting Governor Oleksandr Hanzha, Oct 24, 2026
What is solid
- A Russian drone hit a residential building in Synelnykove district on Oct 24, killing three civilians and injuring 12, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported — reported with the same figures by both The Kyiv Independent and AFP.
- The strike set fire to the building's fourth floor and damaged nearby cars and a store, Hanzha said (Kyiv Independent).
- Five injured were taken to hospital and three — two women and one man — were in serious condition and undergoing surgery, Hanzha said (Kyiv Independent).
What is only claimed
- All casualty and damage figures for Synelnykove come from Governor Hanzha, a Ukrainian official source; neither outlet independently verified them, and Russia's military has not commented on this specific strike in the sources reviewed.
- The wider Saturday toll of at least five dead across eastern Ukraine (AFP) combines separate regional-authority reports from Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions; AFP spells the Dnipropetrovsk governor's surname 'Ganzha' while The Kyiv Independent spells it 'Hanzha' — the same official, transliterated differently.