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Drone strikes hit civilians on both sides
Summary
A look back at two drone attacks reported on 26 October 2025, days before 30 October 2025, in Sumy Oblast and Donetsk.
What did the war look like for civilians in the days leading up to 30 October 2025? Two reports from 26 October 2025 offer a glimpse, each involving a drone and each ending in casualties among people far from any front line position.
In Mykolaivka, in Sumy Raion of Sumy Oblast, a Russian drone struck a minibus. One person was killed and 13 others were injured, two of them seriously. The attack fell within the period of the Russian offensive in Sumy Oblast in 2025.
The same day, a Ukrainian drone strike hit an apartment building in Russian-controlled Donetsk, in Donetsk Oblast. Two people were killed, including an elderly woman, and another person was injured.
The two incidents, reported on the same date, involved different kinds of target: a passenger minibus in one case and a residential block in the other. Together they show how drone attacks were reaching ordinary civilian settings in Ukrainian-held and Russian-controlled areas alike in the final week of October 2025.
