ORYOL, Russia — Three people were killed in a Ukrainian missile attack on a facility in the central Russian city of Oryol, regional Governor Andrei Klychkov said, according to Reuters. The toll and the account of the strike are the governor's, reported as such; they have not been independently verified, and Ukraine did not comment in the Reuters report.
Source: Reuters, Oct 23, 2026
Klychkov did not identify the site that was hit on Friday, but said the attack caused a fire and that the bodies of all three victims were recovered from the rubble, Reuters reported.
Source: Reuters, Oct 23, 2026
"Yet another enemy missile attack on a civilian target. This time, an enterprise was damaged in the Soviet district of the city of Oryol," Klychkov wrote on the Max messenger app, according to Reuters. "This was particularly cynical as the attack occurred at rush hour, when people were leaving work to head home to their families."
Source: Reuters, Oct 23, 2026
The governor's description of the site as a civilian enterprise is his characterisation; Reuters did not identify the facility, and no independent account of what the site was or who the victims were was available in the report.
Source: Reuters, Oct 23, 2026
The reported strike comes as Russia and Ukraine keep up a barrage of long-range attacks on each other despite the latest US mediation attempts to end the war. Missiles struck Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, a Reuters witness said, and Ukraine sent hundreds of drones towards Moscow overnight in that exchange, Reuters reported earlier this week.
Source: Reuters, Oct 21, 2026