Ukraine–Russia

Russian FPV drone hits set two Kramatorsk apartment blocks on fire; a man born in 1941 was found dead, SESU says

ATTACK
Location
Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine (buildings not identified — city OSM, ±5 km)
Actors
Russia · Ukraine
Importance
Standard

Ukraine's State Emergency Service said on 9 October 2026 that Russian FPV drone hits in Kramatorsk set fire to two nine-storey residential buildings; in one, the fire spread across balconies and flats from the third to the ninth floor. Rescuers saved a woman born in 1972 and took her to hospital, and found the body of a man born in 1941. Both fires were extinguished. The SESU also reported a drone hit on an administrative building and a car in Sloviansk and a truck fire in Yasnohirka.

  • Fatalities: Best 1 · Confidence: Probable · Evidence: SESU: man killed in Donetsk region; FPV drone hits set two nine-storey buildings on fire in Kramatorsk · Man born in 1941 found dead (SESU).

Verification: unverified

Evidence: SESU: man killed in Donetsk region; FPV drone hits set two nine-storey buildings on fire in Kramatorsk, Russian FPV drone strikes in Kramatorsk killed an elderly man and set two apartment buildings on fire

Official SESU statement, relayed by Euromaidan Press; the buildings' addresses were not published.