KYIV - A Russian strike on Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia injured four people overnight, regional governor Mykhailo Semikin said on Telegram on Monday, Reuters reported. Two more people were injured in Russian strikes on the Chernihiv region, Ukraine's emergency service said on the messaging app, taking the overnight injured total reported by Ukrainian officials to six. No deaths were reported in the Reuters account.

Source: Reuters, Oct 26

4 injuredIn Zaporizhzhia overnight, according to regional governor Mykhailo Semikin (via Reuters)
2 injuredIn the Chernihiv region, according to Ukraine's emergency service (via Reuters)
0 deaths reportedIn the Reuters account of the overnight strikes published Monday

Russia's defence ministry said on Telegram that it had hit a power station in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, a warehouse in the surrounding region and another power station in the Khmelnitskiy region, Reuters reported. The ministry also said it had targeted port infrastructure in Chornomorsk and a cargo vessel en route to Odesa that it said was used for military purposes. Awaaz Punjab has not independently verified the ministry's target claims, and is reporting them as Russia's own account of its strikes.

Source: Reuters, Oct 26 - Russian defence ministry via Telegram

What is solid

  • A Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia injured four people overnight, the regional governor said (Reuters, citing Mykhailo Semikin on Telegram)
  • Two more people were injured in strikes on the Chernihiv region, Ukraine's emergency service said (Reuters)
  • No deaths were reported in the Reuters account of these overnight strikes

What is only claimed

  • Russia's defence ministry said it hit power stations in Kharkiv and the Khmelnitskiy region, a warehouse in the Kharkiv region, port infrastructure in Chornomorsk and a cargo vessel en route to Odesa it described as used for military purposes - these are the ministry's claims, reported by Reuters; Awaaz Punjab has not independently verified what was hit

Power infrastructure at the centre of the argument

The overnight strikes land in the middle of a public argument over energy targets. The United States has pressed Ukraine to suspend its strikes on Russian oil refineries, which Washington argues have added to high energy prices - a sensitive issue for the Trump administration amid its war on Iran and US midterm elections next month, Reuters reported. In an interview aired on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that for Kyiv to halt those strikes, Moscow must stop hitting Ukraine's power infrastructure - or the United States should allow the use of Starshield over Russia to detect ballistic-missile launch sites, or supply Ukraine with Patriot missiles.

Source: Reuters, Oct 26