Synelnykove: russian drone kills three, wounds up to 12, including an 11-year-old girl

Civilian victims of russian strikes on 24 October and the night of 25 October — per official reports (Ukrinform); the data are incomplete and may rise. By the Kyiv Independent’s count, at least 4 people were killed and 78 wounded in Ukraine in a day (a total for a different period than the list below):

• Synelnykove (Dnipropetrovsk region), 24.10 — 3 killed, 12 wounded (including 1 child); a drone strike on an apartment block, fire on the fourth floor
• Kharkiv (Novobavarskyi district), 24–25.10 — 1 killed, 4 wounded; a jet-powered drone strike (Mayor Ihor Terekhov)
• Konotop district (Sumy region), 24.10 — 1 killed, 4 wounded; a drone attack on a farm
• Nikopol district (Dnipropetrovsk region), 24.10 — no deaths, 4 wounded (including 1 child); a drone attack
• Sloviansk (Donetsk region), 24.10 — no deaths, at least 2 wounded; air strikes on houses
• Chernihiv, 24.10 — no deaths, 2 wounded; a fire after a strike
• Kyiv (Shevchenkivskyi district), 24.10 — no deaths, 1 wounded; drone debris fell on parked cars

Synelnykove, 24 October: Oleksandr Hanzha, governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, wrote that russia had struck the town with a drone; the strike started a fire on the fourth floor of an apartment block and destroyed a shop and several cars. According to Ukrinform (21:58 24.10): 3 killed and at least 8 wounded, all hospitalised, including an 11-year-old girl; a 50-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man are in a serious condition. According to the Kyiv Independent round-up of 25.10, the number of wounded has risen to 12. A day of mourning is not mentioned in the materials.

Kharkiv, Novobavarskyi district: according to Mayor Ihor Terekhov (Ukrinform, 00:01 25.10), a jet-powered drone attack killed one person; at first three were reported wounded, then four, and the consequences were still being established. Earlier, on 23 October, two people, including a child, were hurt in Kharkiv’s Osnovianskyi district.

117 combat clashes as of 22:00 on 24.10 — fewer than at the same hour a day earlier (159); the full day of 23.10 came to 181 (Ukrinform, 24.10 08:42). No morning report for 24.10 had been found at the time of the issue, so the figures are incomplete. Interim data (Ukrinform, 22:52): 52 air strikes (173 KAB guided bombs), about 6,000 kamikaze drones, 1,899 shelling attacks; for 23.10 — 88 air strikes (309 KABs), 10,270 kamikaze drones, 2,755 shelling attacks, 45 of them with MLRS. The named directions do not add up to the total. Attacks by direction (interim report):

• Pokrovsk — 14 attacks (28 russian troops killed, per preliminary data)
• Kostiantynivka — 11
• Huliaipole — 9
• South Slobozhanskyi — 8
• Lyman — 5
• Kupiansk — 3
• Sloviansk — 3
• Oleksandrivka — 1
• Orikhiv — 1
• Kramatorsk and Prydniprovskyi — no assaults

russia lost 1,850 troops in a day — fewer than the day before (+1,980, Ukrinform 07:50) and below the previous week’s average (≈1,950), according to Ukraine’s General Staff (Ukrinform 25.10 08:24; figures being updated). About 1,578,450 in total since 24.02.2022; not independently confirmed:

• Personnel — +1,850
• Tanks — +3 (12,447)
• Armoured fighting vehicles — +5 (25,605)
• Artillery systems — +49 (51,614)
• MLRS — +5 (2,237)
• Air-defence systems — +3 (1,725)
• UGVs — +6
• Operational-tactical UAVs — +1,738
• Vehicles and fuel tankers — +417
• Special equipment — +4

🛡️russia launched 153 attack drones overnight into 25 October — more than the night before (126) but below the previous week’s average (≈188); 92 were jet-powered Shahed-type drones, the rest Banderol/Dan-T, Gerbera and Parodiya drones. 119 were shot down or suppressed (78%, against 80% a day earlier), 64 of them jet-powered; hits were recorded at 15 locations and debris at 9, with 9 drones still in the air (as of 08:00, from 18:00 on 24.10). The report names no missiles. Launch sites: Bryansk, Oryol, Kursk, Millerovo, occupied Donetsk region and Hvardiiske in Crimea.

🛡️The previous night (23–24.10): 126 drones, 61 of them jet-powered; 101 shot down or suppressed (50 jet-powered), hits at 14 locations, debris at 5. No missiles named.

💥📏 165 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Oryol (a regional capital in western russia), night of 24.10: Ukraine’s General Staff reported hitting the main production building of JSC Proton-Electrotex, a maker of optoelectronic equipment, including modules for S-71 Kovyor missiles and switches for Iskander-M missiles. Confirmed by the General Staff on 24.10 at 11:22. No statement by the local authorities (Governor Andrei Klychkov) for that date could be found, hence the verdict “silent”; there are no independent satellite data.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Governor of Oryol region (not found), 24.10.2026): no statements about the site for 24.10 found by search

🔥📏 885 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Togliatti (Samara region, russia, on the Volga), night of 24.10: Ukraine’s General Staff named the Togliattikauchuk complex (synthetic rubbers, monomers and high-octane petrol additives) as hit; an explosion and fire were reported, and the Kyiv Independent also wrote that AvtoVAZ workers — at russia’s largest carmaker, also in Togliatti — were evacuated (reported, not confirmed). Confirmed by the General Staff on 24.10. No statement by Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev or the mayor for that date could be found — verdict “silent”.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Samara region / Togliatti authorities (not found), 24.10.2026): no statements for 24.10 found by search

✈️📏 100 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Yeysk (Krasnodar region, russia, a naval aviation base on the Sea of Azov), 23–24.10: Ukraine’s General Staff reported hitting an aircraft at the airfield; the extent of the damage is being established. Confirmed by the General Staff on 24.10.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Krasnodar region authorities (not found), 24.10.2026): no statements for 24.10 found by search

💥unverified📏 35 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Belgorod region (russia), 24–25.10: according to a Kyiv Independent round-up, a massive Ukrainian drone attack hit a shopping centre; the russian authorities claimed 1 killed and 14 wounded. There is no Ukrainian confirmation, no further details were found, and the data come from a single round-up.

local authorities confirmLocal authorities (russian authorities of Belgorod region (per the Kyiv Independent), 24–25.10.2026): 1 civilian killed, 14 wounded in an attack on a shopping centre

🔥unverifiedSiberia (2,500 km from the border), 24.10: monitoring channels reported a strike on a petrochemical plant and a depot. Neither the site nor any confirmation is named; the source is the Kyiv Independent citing those channels, with no independent verification.

Mediazona, an independent russian outlet, and colleagues have identified by name almost 283,000 russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, adding 6,880 names since the start of October (per the Kyiv Independent, 25.10). This is a minimum count of named dead, not a full estimate of losses.

unverifiedUN Security Council: the headline of a UN article about the meeting says the cycle of escalating attacks on civilians in Ukraine “must end now”. The page could not be opened; only the headline was read.

Cycle of escalating attacks on civilians in Ukraine ‘must end now’

The US delivered only 24 Patriot interceptors in three months, against a need of about 350 a month — roughly 2% of what is needed, Zelensky told ABC News. Kyiv, he said, is ready to stop fighting along the front line but will not give up any more territory. This is the Ukrainian side’s assessment, not an independent monitor’s.

Ukraine’s Defence Ministry reported that Starlink/Starshield service had been restored at speeds above 400 km/h (24.10); Zelensky confirmed. Elon Musk said Ukraine had breached the terms of use, and “Flash” — Serhii Beskrestnov, the defence ministry adviser on drones and communications — responded. According to the WSJ, Trump asked Musk on 22 October to lift the restrictions. The UK Prime Minister urged Trump to secure access for Ukraine.

Zelensky imposed sanctions on 51 individuals and 44 companies supplying components for russia’s long-range missiles (24.10).

Background to the talks: according to Axios (21.10, Barak Ravid), Putin agreed “in principle” to resume three-way talks; Ushakov named around 10 November as a tentative date, possibly in Abu Dhabi. No new statements were found in the past day. Zelensky is ready to go to the G20 summit in Florida if invited.

unverified Germany is in talks to buy Ukrainian jet-powered drones (Kyiv Independent, 24.10); no details given.

unverifiedThe New York Times reports that a sanctioned russian energy giant secretly financed a US gas project linked to a deal discussed by Witkoff and Kushner during their September visit to the kremlin (as retold by the Kyiv Independent, 25.10).

💸unverifiedRepeated from the previous issue: at a rally in Florida Donald Trump floated 200% tariffs on Ukraine and russia to force them to end the war, but immediately doubted it: “we buy too little from them”. This is Ukrinform’s retelling; there is no official decision.

Probably we should do that immediately with Ukraine and Russia. I did not think of it.

🤝On 25 October in Palm Beach, after voting early in the midterm elections, Trump said the US would “do business” with both Ukraine and russia after the war. On energy cooperation with russia, he said he wanted to get back to a life where they would make deals.

We'll do business with Ukraine and with Russia after this war ends, I would think.

unverifiedNo clear statements by Trump on Iran could be found for the past day. What is known: Axios reported in a scoop on 24.10 that a US intelligence memo warns of “advanced” Iranian plots to assassinate officials abroad (Axios’s sources not named). No statement by Trump on this was found.

😄light noteAsked in Palm Beach whether Melania Trump had spoken to Zelensky and Putin about a humanitarian truce in Oleshky — a russian-occupied town on the left bank of the Dnipro in Kherson region — Trump said she was doing better than the professionals and added that she had “got a ceasefire”. He even suggested she could join the negotiations.

I think she's doing better than the professionals right now.

unverifiedUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to a Kyiv Independent headline of 24.10, set out his “theory” of russia’s war against Ukraine ahead of a new US peace initiative. The text was not read; no details. No statements by Chinese officials were found for the day.

🗣️unverifiedNo fresh statements on the war or talks by Putin, Peskov, Lavrov, Ushakov, Medvedev or other senior russian officials for the past day (24–25.10) could be found by search; earlier statements (including Ushakov’s on ~10 November, 21.10) are not repeated.