Russian attack on Koziatyn community in Vinnytsia region: 2 killed, 3 children in hospital

A Russian attack on the Koziatyn community in Ukraine's Vinnytsia region on 1 November killed two people, and three children were hospitalised. This was reported by Zabolotna, head of the Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration.

According to Zabolotna, a man was killed at the scene, while a woman died in intensive care. The strike landed between a dormitory and one of the educational institutions.

According to the regional military administration, the strike hit in the afternoon the area between the dormitory of a railway school and an academic building, a few hundred metres from the railway station. Of the injured children, two are five years old and one is a 16-year-old boy; they are being treated in a medical facility with moderate injuries.

On the same day, a Russian attack on Ternopil region hit an energy facility in the Kremenets community. Pastukh, head of the Ternopil Regional Military Administration, said 12 settlements were left fully or partially without electricity and that power engineers were already working to restore supply.

According to Ukrainian officials, two men were injured in a drone attack on Kyiv region on the morning of 1 November. In the city of Dnipro, an industrial facility was hit and a fire broke out; according to preliminary information, no one was injured.

Koziatyn is a town in Vinnytsia region in central Ukraine and one of the country's important railway junctions. Volodymyr Zelensky said on 1 November that over the past week the Russian army had launched 1,940 attack drones, more than 1,580 guided aerial bombs and 44 missiles of various types at Ukraine.