On the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 13, Russia struck Kyiv with ballistic missiles. Zelensky said the main target was CHP-4; Kyiv Post adds that a nine-story residential building was also hit, where at least one person was killed and 13 were injured. Zelensky and his adviser said that Ukraine had not received a warning about the launch from partners for the second time in a row (RBC-Ukraine, UNIAN). Overnight into Wednesday the attacks continued on Kyiv, the Kyiv region, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv; according to Zelensky, 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 drones and loitering munitions were used. Mayor Klitschko reported a strike on several energy facilities. In the morning three dead and more than twenty injured were reported; later Ukrainska Pravda wrote of five dead and 36 injured. The Kremlin, according to Peskov, does not believe it violated the “energy truce” because it had no specific terms.
A strike on a CHP plant before winter hits heating and electricity supply, and the lack of a warning cuts the time people have to reach shelter. It is also a test of Trump’s statement about halting strikes on energy: Moscow claims there were no terms.
If you are in Kyiv, prepare for outages: check the oblenergo schedule, charge a power bank, keep a supply of water and warm clothes. Do not wait for explosions; go to shelter right after the alert.
Zelensky: the strike on energy came despite the arrangement announced by Trump, and partners twice failed to warn of a ballistic launch.
The Kremlin: no one specified the truce, so it could not be violated. CBS News, according to RBC-Ukraine, suggests the US may have deliberately withheld the warning; there is no confirmation.
We are watching three things: whether the numbers of dead and injured are updated, whether it is explained why partners did not warn of the launch, and whether the intelligence warnings of new ballistic launches come true. We do not have an answer to any of these yet.
Zelensky (Telegram), NV, UNIAN, TSN, RBC-Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda, Censor.NET, Kyiv Post, Channel 24 (Oct. 13–14, 2026)
Ballistic strikes hit Kyiv for the second time in a row with no warning from partners; the target was CHP-4, and the capital has power outages
According to Zelensky, overnight into Oct. 14 Russia fired 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 drones at the energy sector of Kyiv, the Kyiv region and Kharkiv. In the morning three dead were reported; later Ukrainska Pravda wrote of five.
The ballistic strike on Kyiv came on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 13. Zelensky said that same evening that the main target was CHP-4 (NV, RBC-Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda). A nine-story residential building was also hit: according to Kyiv Post, at least one person was killed and 13 were injured. Censor.NET wrote that the explosions came before the alert was announced. The previous evening, Monday, Oct. 12, explosions in Kyiv had also been heard before the alert sounded. Zelensky added that partners had not warned of the launch, and that this was already the second evening in a row; a presidential adviser, according to UNIAN, confirmed that Ukraine had not received intelligence about the launch (RBC-Ukraine, UNIAN).
Overnight into Wednesday the attacks continued: the Air Force warned of ballistic missiles heading for Kyiv, the Kyiv region, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv (Censor.NET, TSN, Ukrainska Pravda). On Telegram Zelensky wrote that over the night the Russians used 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 strike drones and loitering munitions against the energy sector and critical infrastructure; according to Channel 24, air defense shot down four ballistic targets. The president stressed that the strike was aimed precisely at energy, for which Trump had announced a ceasefire, and that intelligence, according to UNIAN and TSN, reports preparations for new launches. Separately, he said that Russia is showing how little it heeds US appeals and wants Trump to look weak (Ukrainska Pravda, TSN, Yevropeiska Pravda).
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported a strike on several energy facilities in the capital (Censor.NET). In the morning the city had power outages; RBC-Ukraine, Censor.NET and the English-language Ukrainska Pravda wrote of three dead and more than twenty injured. Later Ukrainska Pravda reported five dead and 36 injured in the Desnianskyi and Holosiivskyi districts. In the evening TSN reported that stabilization schedules were not in effect in Kyiv while the grid repairs continue; for Oct. 15 consumption would again be restricted in some regions, but the schedules would be softer (RBC-Ukraine, TSN). Kyiv Post, writing about strikes on power plants in Kyiv and Kharkiv, estimated that at least 600,000 people were left without power; we found this figure in only one outlet.
Moscow responded procedurally. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Trump had not specified the terms of the “energy truce,” so Russia could not have violated it (Kyiv Post, Ukrainska Pravda, RBC-Ukraine). Zelensky says that Ukraine has not struck Russian energy facilities since the truce was announced (NV); Moscow claimed new strikes on two refineries, and the president’s office called this a fake (Ukrainska Pravda, TSN, RBC-Ukraine). Zelensky discussed the strike and the lack of a warning with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (NV, Censor.NET).
What this means. A strike on a CHP plant as the cold sets in hits heat and electricity supply, and the lack of a warning cuts the time people have to reach shelter. Klitschko, according to RBC-Ukraine, asked the Verkhovna Rada where the air defense for the capital is and where the money allocated to protect the energy sector is. Why partners did not warn is not explained in our sources; for a possible link to intelligence, read the neighboring story on Starlink. The death toll and the reasons for the late alert are to be clarified by the city authorities and the Air Force.