Russian missiles and drones hit Kyiv as Moscow proposes talks for mid-November

Overnight strikes on Kyiv

Russia fired 21 ballistic missiles at Ukraine's capital in three waves overnight into Thursday, 22 October, along with more than 200 Shahed-type drones. Reports said none of the missiles were intercepted and that an Iskander-K5 was likely among them. A Ukrainian presidential adviser said one missile split into 58 explosive parts before reaching the ground, scattering fragmentation munitions over a wide area. The strike hit the Pechersk district and reportedly damaged dozens, possibly hundreds, of apartments, along with banks, restaurants, shops and supermarkets. Emergency crews on site pulled part of a missile out of a crater.

Casualties across Ukraine

Two people were killed in Kyiv and 22 injured, four of them minors, after strikes on six districts of the city. Elsewhere, a man died in Sumy, a woman in Kharkiv and three people in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to regional military administrations and police. Zelensky put the number injured across several regions at 34 and said the attacks damaged electricity facilities in the capital. Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said an earlier missile attack on the capital left six people injured. One report attributed five further deaths to the north and centre of the country, a figure that does not fit neatly with the regional breakdown.

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Moscow said its air defences destroyed 808 Ukrainian drones overnight over 20 Russian regions and Crimea. Sergei Sobyanin said 630 drones were launched toward the Moscow region, injuring two people, and that 163 of them came close to the city.

Witkoff's talks and the November timetable

Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy, met Zelensky and European leaders in Oslo on Tuesday, 20 October, then Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Wednesday, 21 October. Trump said the end of the war had never seemed so close, according to Observador. Zelensky called for a halt to fighting along current front lines as a first step toward negotiations. After a three-hour meeting, Kremlin diplomatic adviser Yuri Ushakov said Moscow was ready to resume three-way talks with Kyiv and Washington, but not immediately, around 10 November. Another report gave Moscow's suggested date as mid-November, while Kyiv has asked for talks to begin as soon as possible. Diario de Noticias reported that talks had been stalled since the start of the year and that contacts were suspended after the war in the Middle East, which Washington and Israel launched against Iran.

What comes next

On the morning of 22 October, Ukraine's air force warned of possible new ballistic missile launches at Kyiv and asked residents to stay in shelters. Diario de Noticias also reported that Ushakov referred to a possible meeting between Putin, Trump and Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shenzhen in November, though that meeting has not been confirmed. Both Ukraine and Russia have declared themselves ready to resume direct talks under US mediation. No date for those talks has been agreed.