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Strikes on Odesa, Mykolaiv region and Kyiv: one killed, two injured

Strikes on Odesa, Mykolaiv region and Kyiv: one killed, two injured

01.10.2026
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Overnight and in the morning of 1 October, Russian strikes hit Odesa, Mykolaiv region and Kyiv: drones killed a man in Mykolaiv region, and one person was injured each in Odesa and Kyiv.

Overnight and in the morning of 1 October, Russia attacked Ukrainian cities again. According to local authorities and rescuers, drones killed a man in Mykolaiv region, and one person was injured each in Odesa and Kyiv. Volunteers Support Ukraine has gathered the main points from the official reports.

Rescuers fight a fire at a business center in Odesa after the Russian strike. Photo: Odesa Regional Military Administration / Ukrinform

Odesa: a business center is damaged

Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, said one person was injured when a business center was hit. The roofs and facades of two buildings were damaged, and the blast wave shattered windows and partly destroyed walls on the fifth floor. Rescuers quickly put out the fire.

Mykolaiv region: a man is killed

Heorhii Reshetilov, acting head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, reported that Shahed-type drones attacked the Vesniane community in the morning, killing a 50-year-old man and destroying a tractor. The region had also come under drone attack the previous day.

Kyiv rescuers extinguish a fire after the overnight attack on 1 October. Photo: State Emergency Service of Kyiv

Kyiv: fires in two districts

According to the State Emergency Service, one person was injured in the capital and handed to medics. In the Solomianskyi district, a fire broke out in a ground-floor room of a 16-storey residential building and parked cars burned, with the blaze covering 80 square metres. In the Obolonskyi district, a large fire at a warehouse building was extinguished.

A State Emergency Service firefighter at the site of a warehouse fire in Kyiv after the overnight attack on 1 October. Photo: State Emergency Service of Kyiv

The everyday cost of war

For residents of these cities, nightly alerts have long been part of life, and every strike means shattered windows, burned cars and someone's loss. NGO Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps helping people affected by the war in whatever way its available resources allow.

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