A cruise missile destroyed two entrances of a five-storey block in Pryluky, Chernihiv region: 19 people were killed, five of them children, and 55 injured. At least 25 people died nationwide in the combined attack on October 7.
The morning missile strike on Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region, on October 7 became the deadliest tragedy of a day of massive attacks on Ukraine. According to the National Police, as of 18:30 the number of dead had risen to 19, five of them children, with 55 more people injured. Volunteers Support Ukraine shares the grief of the families who lost their loved ones.
On the morning of October 7, russian forces attacked Pryluky with cruise missiles. Two entrances of an apartment building were destroyed. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, a Kh-101 missile scored a direct hit on the building. Among the dead were three one-year-old children and an eight-year-old child.
Throughout the day, State Emergency Service rescuers cleared rubble, and search-and-rescue work continued. Police investigators inspected 346 destroyed and damaged apartments in residential buildings, nine private houses and 34 vehicles. Days of mourning were declared in Pryluky from October 7 to 9.
According to Zelensky, the combined strike with ballistic and cruise missiles and "Shahed" drones killed at least 25 people nationwide and wounded about a hundred. The next day, police sappers defused an intact warhead of a russian cruise missile on the outskirts of Pryluky; it had landed several hundred metres from the impact site. NGO Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps helping people affected by the war in whatever way the available resources allow.
