Russian drones killed two people in the village of Korotych, near Kharkiv, overnight, according to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov, who posted on Telegram on Wednesday, 21 October. The dead are a woman aged 81 and a man aged 83. Syniehubov said the attack damaged 13 private houses and one vehicle. Eleven others suffered acute stress reactions, among them a two-month-old boy and an eight-year-old girl. Kharkiv is Ukraine's second-largest city, and Korotych lies in the surrounding region.
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In Kremenchuk, in the Poltava region, a Russian drone hit a building of the Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University on Tuesday evening, 20 October, starting a fire. Emergency services were sent to put it out. The number of people hurt differs between reports: one in an early account, two according to local authorities in another report, and three according to Poltava governor Vitalii Diakivnych, who said one of them was a 16-year-old hospitalised with a concussion.
In Kyiv, Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said on Telegram that a Russian air strike hit a high-rise residential building and transport infrastructure, causing fires. He said a drone struck a transport facility in the Solomianskyi district, where rescue crews were on site. Early reports cited one dead and one injured in the capital.
Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that its drones had hit a cargo vessel carrying military cargo to Ukraine and bound for the port of Odesa. It also claimed strikes on a warehouse complex used for drone storage in Poltava and on an electric power substation that, in its account, supplies Ukraine's defence and industrial sector as well as logistics centres in Kyiv. These are the ministry's own claims. Separately, the Exilenova+ channel said Ukrainian strikes overnight hit a telecommunications centre in occupied Luhansk and the NZNP Rostovskyi export terminal, damaging eight oil storage tanks. That tank count comes from the channel alone. Ukraine has been fighting a full-scale Russian invasion since February 2022, a war that includes near-daily drone, missile and rocket attacks across the country.
The strikes came ahead of a meeting scheduled for Wednesday between US envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Witkoff reached St Petersburg on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, 20 October, he met Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Norway, and a US official described those talks as 'constructive'. Several reports link the timing of the overnight attacks to the planned meeting. The articles do not report how the Putin meeting went or give updated casualty figures for Kyiv beyond the early counts.
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Russian drones killed a woman aged 81 and a man aged 83 in the village of Korotych overnight, while strikes also hit Kyiv and a university in Kremenchuk, ahead of US envoy Steve Witkoff's meeting with Vladimir Putin.
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