Russian forces carried out 1,033 strikes on 56 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on October 9, killing two people and wounding 41, according to regional reports. The attacks included 33 airstrikes, 789 drone strikes, three rocket launcher attacks and 208 artillery strikes, with 437 reports of damage to homes, vehicles and infrastructure. In Zaporizhzhia city, a morning guided bomb strike destroyed and damaged residential buildings, according to Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the regional defense council. By evening, the number of people injured in that strike had risen to 19, including two children, one of them a 14-year-old girl. An FPV drone also hit a minibus downtown, injuring two men and a woman. Acting regional head Semikin said 23 people were injured in the city that day.
In western Ukraine, a Russian drone struck a home in the Rivne region at about 4:30 p.m., wounding seven members of a large family, four of them children. A 32-year-old woman and three children, aged 12, 13 and 13, were hospitalized. A 13-year-old boy was in intensive care in serious condition. A café and a shop were also damaged. Earlier, a woman was injured in Sarny district. Overnight, a jet-powered Shahed drone killed one man in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, according to Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv. A building, dry grass, and bushes caught fire.
