Ukraine–Russia

Euromaidan Press reports the death toll from the Russian missile attack on Pryluky rose to 22

This version is a correction.

ATTACK
Location
Pryluky, Chernihiv region
Actors
Russia · Ukraine
Importance
Notable

Ukrinform reported on 7 October 2026 that a Russian missile attack hit Pryluky in the Chernihiv region in the early morning, while people were still asleep. The Chernihiv regional police said a series of missile strikes on the city began at around 06:00 local time. One strike hit a residential apartment block directly, and hits were also recorded on a centre for children's and youth creativity and on an enterprise. Ukraine's State Emergency Service first said four people were killed and 20 injured, including three children, and the death toll later rose to five with 25 injured. Ukrinform then reported, citing the Chernihiv regional police as of 11:30 a.m., a toll of nine dead with the bodies of three children recovered from the rubble of a high-rise building, and that a policewoman was wounded while her husband, recently serving on the front lines with the police, and her mother were killed. A later Ukrinform report on the same day is headed with the toll in Pryluky rising to 16 dead and 55 injured, and UATV English reported the same figures from police, adding that four children were among the dead, seven among the injured, and that three people, including a child, were rescued from under the rubble. An AFP report carried the same afternoon put the Pryluky apartment block at 14 killed and said at least 20 people were killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine that Wednesday. No Russian account was available to this report. A later count reported by Euromaidan Press on 8 October 2026, citing the State Emergency Service in Chernihiv Oblast, puts the death toll in the Pryluky apartment building at 22, five of them children, with 54 injured, seven of them children, and 15 people rescued. That account dates the strike to the morning of 7 October 2026 and says the same overnight attack fired about 70 missiles and Shahed drones at Ukraine, killing two people each in Kyiv, Kremenchuk and Oleksandriia.

Reported by Ukrinform, Ukraine's national news agency, with no Russian account available.

Open image · Image published by Euromaidan Press with its report of the Pryluky toll, credited in the post to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Chernihiv Oblast; the picture's subject and time of capture are not stated and it was not checked against the building. · Credit: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Chernihiv Oblast (via Euromaidan Press) · Verification: unverified

  • Fatalities: Low 22 · Best 22 · High 22 people · Confidence: Unknown · Evidence: A Russian missile strike on one apartment building in Pryluky killed 22 people, five of them children · Twenty-two killed, five of them children, in the count reported by Euromaidan Press on 8 October 2026 citing the State Emergency Service in Chernihiv Oblast, after earlier counts of four, five, nine and 16 dead.
  • Injuries: Low 54 · Best 54 · High 54 people · Confidence: Unknown · Evidence: A Russian missile strike on one apartment building in Pryluky killed 22 people, five of them children · Fifty-four injured, seven of them children, and 15 people rescued, in the count reported by Euromaidan Press on 8 October 2026 citing the State Emergency Service in Chernihiv Oblast, after earlier counts of 20, 25 and 55 injured.

Verification: unverified

Evidence: Russian strike on apartment building in Pryluky: death toll rises to 16, 55 injured, UATV English posts police figures for the Pryluky apartment-block strike, A Russian missile strike on one apartment building in Pryluky killed 22 people, five of them children

Ukrinform is Ukraine's national news agency, citing the Chernihiv regional police, the State Emergency Service and the interior minister. The two sides of the attack are described only from the Ukrainian side; no Russian account was available to this report. The figures of 16 dead and 55 injured are taken from the headline of the Ukrinform report and from the figures UATV English attributed to police; an AFP report published the same afternoon gives 14 killed in the Pryluky apartment block and at least 20 killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine that day, and that difference in counts is not reconciled here. The 22 dead and 54 injured come from the Euromaidan Press report of 8 October 2026 citing the State Emergency Service in Chernihiv Oblast; that count was not independently verified and no Russian account of the strike was available.