Russian Drone Strikes in Kherson and Chernihiv Injure 6

Russian drone strikes wounded six civilians, including a 10-year-old boy, across the Kherson and Chernihiv regions on Sunday, Oct. 4, regional administrations and the National Police of Ukraine reported. The tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks targeted residential districts and municipal infrastructure in northern and southern Ukraine, setting houses ablaze and injuring pedestrians in open streets.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. In the northern Chernihiv region, a Russian drone strike hit the Nosivka territorial community in the Nizhyn district during the afternoon, injuring three civilians. The National Police confirmed that the wounded included a 76-year-old woman, a 55-year-old man, and a 10-year-old boy, all of whom received emergency medical assistance. The blast ignited a fire that destroyed a private residence and an adjacent outbuilding while inflicting structural damage on neighboring homesteads. Police investigators and forensic experts deployed to the scene to document physical destruction and collect munition fragments under pre-trial proceedings initiated under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which governs violations of the laws and customs of war. Tactical drone drops across Kherson In the southern city of Kherson and its surrounding suburban districts, Russian tactical drone drops injured three people in separate incidents on Sunday morning, according to the Kherson Regional Military Administration. At approximately 8:00 a.m. local time, Russian forces deployed a loitering drone over the city’s Tsentralnyi district, dropping an explosive device that wounded a 67-year-old man. Other Topics of Interest EU Rejects Russian Threats to Envoys, Vows Unbroken Kyiv Presence The European Commission confirmed its delegation remains open in Kyiv while approving €28.3B in defense procurement plans. Regional authorities reported that the victim sustained an explosive injury and shrapnel wounds to his arm before receiving treatment from municipal emergency medical personnel. Roughly two hours later, at around 10:00 a.m., an unmanned aircraft targeted a 65-year-old man in the Korabelnyi district of the city. Paramedics transported the man to a local hospital after diagnosing him with mine-blast trauma and multiple shrapnel wounds to his lower limbs. Concurrently in Bilozerka, located west of Kherson city, medical personnel administered care to a 51-year-old nurse injured when Russian fire struck a local healthcare facility. The regional administration confirmed that the healthcare worker sustained an explosive trauma and a concussion, transitioning to outpatient medical supervision. Escalating aerial bombardments The drone strikes in Chernihiv and Kherson follow an intensifying campaign of standoff aerial bombardments directed against Ukrainian population centers. Earlier on Sunday morning, Russian tactical aviation launched five guided aerial bombs (KABs) against the Zarichnyi district of the northeastern regional capital of Sumy at approximately 7:50 a.m. The casualty toll rose to seven civilians injured, two seriously, while the blast damaged multi-story residential apartment buildings, vehicles, municipal gas pipelines, and a commercial enterprise. The weekend attacks arrived as President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Russian forces launched over 1,900 strike drones, 1,700 guided aerial bombs, and 25 missiles against Ukraine over the past week. Over 800 of the unmanned aircraft were high-speed, turbojet-powered variants engineered to challenge low-altitude air defense interception networks. The weekly total was compounded by an overnight barrage into Sunday morning involving 135 strike drones, with incoming munitions hitting a pharmaceutical warehouse in Sumy, where one person was killed, wounding six at a telecommunications facility in Dnipro, and striking the road deck of Kyiv’s North Bridge for the second consecutive day. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 97% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.