(KYIV) – A Russian ballistic missile strike on Kyiv early on Wednesday, 14th October 2026, killed at least two people and injured 21 others, including an eight-year-old child, according to Ukrainian officials. The attack came without advance warning from Western partners, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, raising questions about intelligence sharing at a critical moment in the war.
The strike targeted Kyiv’s TPP-4 thermal power plant, one of the capital’s principal electricity generating facilities, and a nine-story residential building in the Desnianskyi district. “There are 21 injured people in the Desnianskyi district. Among them is an eight-year-old child,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated. “Medics hospitalized 16 of the injured. Four of the injured are in serious condition.”
Ukraine’s Air Force reported that its systems detected the incoming Iskander-M missiles only as they approached the capital, with no advance air raid alarm issued. Zelensky stated that “Ukraine’s system detected these missiles almost as they were approaching Kyiv. There was no air raid alarm.” He added: “According to our intelligence, the Russians are preparing new missile launches. The facts show that the Russians do not consider it necessary to abide by what the president of America has said.”
The Iskander-M is a ballistic missile with a strike range of up to 700 kilometres and a maximum speed of approximately 2,600 metres per second. According to military analysts, not a single Iskander launch has previously reached Ukrainian targets without prior detection and warning. “This suggests that we have reached a point where we are experiencing direct pressure from our partners,” the Ukrainian Air Force stated.
In the Khmelnytskyi region, Russian forces struck the Epicentr logistics distribution centre ten times in a single day, destroying approximately 85 percent of stored goods and triggering five large-scale fires. Epicentr confirmed that all employees survived but described the damage as “difficult even to comprehend.” The Khmelnytskyi facility was the company’s last major operational warehouse complex following previous strikes on its centres in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.
Ukraine responded overnight with a large-scale drone operation targeting Russian oil infrastructure in the Rostov-on-Don region. The Novoshakhtinsk oil loading terminal, operated by the Yug Rusi group, was struck and set ablaze. The terminal has a reported annual throughput capacity of 3.5 million metric tons of petroleum products and handles exports from the nearby Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery. Rostov region Governor Yury Slyusar claimed air defences intercepted over 100 drones but did not address the terminal fire.
The exchange follows a pause in Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries after US President Donald Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” between the two countries. Zelensky said Ukraine had supported the cessation and refrained from attacks for two days. Trump, when asked about the Russian strikes on Kyiv, stated that the US is “still sharing intelligence” with Ukraine but declined to comment on whether the attacks violated the ceasefire.
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