Child Killed, 2 Injured in Drone Strike Near Nikopol

An 11-year-old boy was killed and two other children were injured on Saturday, Oct. 10, when Russian forces dropped an explosive munition from an unmanned aerial vehicle in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region, regional authorities reported. Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Hanzha confirmed the casualties on his official Telegram channel, stating that the attack took place in the Pokrovska territorial community.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “An 11-year-old boy was killed as a result of an enemy attack in the Nikopol district,” Hanzha said. “The Russians dropped a munition from a drone in the Pokrovska community. Two more children were wounded – a 12-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl.” Hanzha stated that both surviving children were transported to a medical facility, where doctors are administering emergency medical assistance. The Nikopol district, located across the Dnipro River from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, faces daily Russian artillery shelling, loitering munition attacks, and tactical drone drops targeting civilian areas and municipal infrastructure. Daylight drone and ballistic barrages across central Ukraine The fatal drone drop in the Pokrovska community formed part of a wave of Russian strikes targeting non-combatants and civilian settlements across central and eastern Ukraine on Saturday. In Kyiv, Russian forces conducted a daylight ballistic missile strike on the northern Obolonskyi district, hitting a restaurant building, sparking a major blaze, and scattering missile debris across an adjacent residential courtyard. Other Topics of Interest Major Drone Attack Paralyzes Moscow Airports, Flights Delayed Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin claimed 403 UAVs targeted the capital as Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo faced over 300 delays following consecutive hits on Yandex servers. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed that the number of casualties from the capital’s restaurant strike rose to six, with five victims hospitalized and one treated on-site by emergency medical crews. The ballistic barrage followed morning waves of turbojet loitering munitions that damaged electrical distribution nodes in Kyiv region, temporarily shutting down all three lines of the capital’s metro network, paralyzing electric surface transit, and cutting off municipal water supplies. Climbing casualties in southern urban centers Concurrently, emergency responders in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia continued recovering victims following a Russian guided aerial bomb (KAB) strike launched at 4:48 a.m. local time on Saturday. The strike directly hit a five-story residential building and damaged 26 homes across the Shevchenkivskyi and Voznesenivskyi districts. While initial morning assessments indicated four fatalities, the State Emergency Service and regional military authorities confirmed that the death toll surged to 17, including three children, as rescue brigades cleared collapsed masonry and searched for trapped residents beneath the rubble. Another 16 civilians, including two children, sustained injuries. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 90% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.