UNITED NATIONS — Ukraine requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, October 30, over Russia's latest wave of missile and drone attacks, which left at least 25 people dead and 110 wounded nationwide, according to Kyiv. "From Dnipro and Chernihiv to Kremenchuk and Kyiv, the scale and geography of the strikes show that no part of Ukraine is beyond the reach of Russian terror," Ukraine's Foreign Ministry stated, noting that the strikes targeted private homes, civilian infrastructure and railway facilities.
Source: Kyiv Post, Oct 30 2026
The request is a genuinely new development: it follows, and explicitly responds to, the strike wave Awaaz Punjab already reported this week — including the October 29 jet-powered drone strike on a Dnipro railway platform that killed 14 people waiting near a Dnipro–Zaporizhzhia passenger train, and a further strike on Dnipro station on Friday that injured a woman, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN, Andrii Melnyk, stated that Ukraine is calling for an emergency meeting of the Security Council in response to Russia's latest attacks on the civilian population, Ukrinform's October 30 newsletter reported — an independent confirmation of the request from Ukraine's state news agency.
Source: Ukrinform newsletter, Oct 30 2026
Sybiha: terror leads to consequences, not concessions
Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha described the strikes as another gross violation of international law and the UN Charter and accused Russia of undermining international peace. He reiterated that Russia is exploiting its status as a permanent member of the Security Council to prevent the body from carrying out its mandate: as one of the Council's five permanent members, Russia holds veto power over its resolutions, allowing Moscow to block action on its own war against Ukraine. Kyiv first called for Russia's removal from the Security Council as early as December 2022.
"Russia must understand that its campaign of terror leads only to consequences, not concessions," Sybiha said, adding that Russia must be held accountable for the crimes it has committed. In its latest statement, Kyiv also called again on partners to provide Ukraine with more air-defence capabilities, to increase pressure and to impose tougher sanctions on Moscow.
The strikes behind the request
In Chernihiv, a Russian strike on the city centre killed two teenagers and injured 27 people, Ukrainian officials said. In Kremenchuk, attacks on two locations, including an area where a boarding school was damaged, killed three people and injured 32, officials said. Russian guided aerial bombs also hit an apartment building in Izium, in the Kharkiv region, while ballistic missiles struck Kyiv late in the evening, setting warehouses on fire and damaging residential buildings. All casualty figures in this story are those reported by Ukrainian officials and the outlets citing them; Russia has not commented on the specific toll in the reports used here.
Whether the Council meets, and what it can do given Russia's veto, remains to be seen. The request lands as the Trump administration continues to ease economic pressure on Moscow, and a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Security Council that Russia will not halt its aggression against Ukraine even during negotiations — a position Lavrov restated while attending the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, from which Ukraine was not invited.