Ukraine, new large-scale Russian attack: death toll rises to 25

On October 7, Russia carried out a new large-scale attack against Ukrainian territory. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the overall toll of the attack stands at 25 dead and 100 wounded across the country.

The hardest-hit location was Pryluky, a town in the Chernihiv region, where a cruise missile struck a residential building. Local authorities and rescuers put the death toll in Pryluky at at least 19. The figure rose in the hours following the impact: initial reports indicated at least 5 children among the victims and 55 wounded, including 7 children, before the total count of victims in the building reached at least 19. On October 8, a day after the attack, rescuers were still working to clear the rubble, a sign that the final toll had not yet been established at the time of publication.

The account provided by the two available sources converges on the essential features of the episode: a Russian missile attack on a residential area, a death toll rising as rescue operations continued, and a significant share of wounded and dead among minors, none of whom can be identified in the available reports.

The nationwide figure of 25 dead and 100 wounded, reported by Zelensky, remains the most recent verifiable number at the time this article was written; any upward or downward update will be explicitly reported as a revision of the previously published toll.

Rescue operations in Pryluky were ongoing at the time the cited sources were gathered, with local authorities yet to provide a final toll of the victims in the building that was hit.