On the evening of Oct. 13 Russia struck Kyiv with ballistic missiles. According to Zelensky, the main target was CHP-4, and the missiles hit it; a residential building was also damaged (the president’s Telegram, Ukrainska Pravda, NV, RBC-Ukraine, Censor.NET). Kyiv Post and RBC-Ukraine call the building a nine-story block; the State Emergency Service reported a fire in the Desnianskyi district and the evacuation of residents. At first there was talk of one dead and 13 injured, later of 21 injured (TSN, Kyiv Independent); Reuters names two dead. The Air Force and presidential adviser Litvin said that neither that day nor the day before had partners reported any launches. According to Censor.NET, the siren was turned on only after the explosions. On the night before Wednesday explosions sounded in the capital again, and the Air Force warned of ballistic missiles toward Kyiv and Zhytomyr.
A CHP plant produces both heat and electricity, so a strike on it affects both resources on the eve of winter. Moreover, a repeat of the situation without a warning means that people and air defense have less time, and the question of intelligence sharing between Kyiv and Washington becomes part of the political dispute over the diesel deal and the “energy truce.”
Kyiv and the region: at the alert signal go to shelter at once, without waiting for explosions. Check the outage schedule for Oct. 14 and charge your devices. The scale of the damage to CHP-4 has not been officially named, so do not rely on rumors about the consequences for heating.
The strike on CHP-4 shows that Russia disregards the “energy truce” and hits energy as before; Kyiv has the right to demand faster data sharing from its partners.
Trump and his envoys insist that dialogue with Moscow continues and that the US shares intelligence; the lack of a signal may be a technical detection problem, and conclusions about political pressure are premature.
What is worth checking in the coming days: whether the scale of the damage to CHP-4 will be officially named, whether the White House will explain why Kyiv twice received no warning, and whether this pattern will repeat. For now the death toll differs (one person or two), so we do not give a final figure.
Ukrainska Pravda, NV, RBC-Ukraine, Censor.NET, TSN, UNIAN, Kyiv Independent, Kyiv Post, BBC, Reuters (Oct. 13–14, 2026)
Ballistic strike on Kyiv: missiles hit CHP-4 and a nine-story apartment block, at least one dead and 21 injured
Zelensky says that for the second evening in a row Ukraine received no warning of a launch from its partners; the Air Force confirms this. On the night before Wednesday Kyiv again came under threat from ballistic missiles.
On the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 13, Russia struck Kyiv with ballistic missiles. The main target, according to Zelensky on Telegram, was the energy sector — CHP-4 — and the missiles hit it; a residential building was also damaged, where rescuers put out a fire (the president’s Telegram, Ukrainska Pravda, NV, RBC-Ukraine, Censor.NET). Kyiv Post and RBC-Ukraine describe the building as a nine-story block, while the State Emergency Service, cited by NV, reported a fire in a high-rise in the Desnianskyi district and the evacuation of residents. The figures rose through the evening: first one dead and 13 injured (NV, Kyiv Post), then 17, and later 21 injured (TSN, Kyiv Independent). Reuters writes of two dead, Ukrainian outlets of one person; the final number is to be clarified by rescuers.
For the second evening in a row Kyiv received no warning from its partners. The Air Force said that neither that day nor the day before had it received any information about launches from partners (Ukrainska Pravda, Kyiv Independent, Censor.NET); the presidential adviser Litvin confirmed this (NV, UNIAN). According to Zelensky, the system detected the missiles when they were almost at the city. The siren, per Censor.NET, sounded only after loud explosions, and per TSN just before the explosions. Whether this is pressure from Washington, nobody in Kyiv knows: a source in the government told RBC-Ukraine, “we do not yet know whether this is pressure.” Trump claimed the same day that the US is still sharing intelligence (Reuters, Bloomberg, Kyiv Post) — more alongside.
The strike was not the only one. As Reuters wrote, during Tuesday, until the evening, Russia, for the first time since the “energy truce” announced by Trump, did not touch energy targets, and at night it hit urban transport and logistics. On the night of Oct. 13 Russia launched five Iskanders, nine Banderol missiles and 108 drones, with hits recorded at 17 locations (NV, UNIAN). In the morning a drone hit a university building in central Rivne: Kyiv Post writes of 30 injured and students moving to remote learning, while RBC-Ukraine, NV and Ukrainska Pravda reported wounded. During Oct. 13, per NV, RBC-Ukraine and UNIAN, Epicentr’s logistics center in Khmelnytskyi was attacked ten times: about 85% of the goods burned, and employees were not hurt. In Lutsk, fragments of a jet-powered Shahed set fire to the Adrenalin City entertainment center (Ukrainska Pravda, NV, RBC-Ukraine). According to an assessment by “Flash,” the jet-powered drones that Russia is testing against the western regions travel almost 900 kilometers over Ukrainian territory (NV, UNIAN).
On the night before Wednesday the alert was repeated. The Air Force warned of ballistic missiles toward Kyiv and Zhytomyr, and in the capital explosions sounded again; RBC-Ukraine calls this already the second shelling of the night (RBC-Ukraine, TSN, Ukrainska Pravda). We saw no official data on the consequences at the time this issue was prepared. Zelensky urged people to take care during alerts that night and the next day because of the threat of new attacks (TSN), and a jet-powered drone, per Ukrainska Pravda, damaged an administrative building in Ternopil.
What this means. A CHP plant provides both heat and electricity, so a strike on it affects both resources, and winter is already approaching. How much capacity the station lost, the sources do not say, so the scale of the damage is not yet known. Separately, the silence of the partners hurts: with no warning, both people and air defense have less time. The practical advice is unchanged: at the alert signal go to shelter at once, without waiting for explosions, and charge power banks in advance.