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Drone strikes on civilians days before 28 October 2025
Summary
Two drone attacks reported on 26 October 2025 killed three people and injured 14 on either side of the front line.
What did the war look like for civilians in the days leading up to 28 October 2025? Reports from 26 October 2025, two days earlier, point to drone strikes that reached ordinary places far from the trenches.
In Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, a Russian drone struck a minibus in Mykolaivka, in Sumy Raion. One person was killed and 13 others were injured, two of them seriously. The incident was listed under the 2025 Sumy offensive, the Russian push in that part of northern Ukraine.
The same day, a Ukrainian drone strike hit an apartment building in Russian-controlled Donetsk, in Donetsk Oblast. Two people were killed, among them an elderly woman, and another person was injured.
Taken together, the two reports show drones hitting a passenger vehicle and a residential block, with three dead and 14 injured between them. Each came from a different side of the front line, and each hit people who were not on a battlefield.
