What the strikes of 22 October 2025 showed

What did a single day of the war look like for those living under it? On 22 October 2025, the reported events pointed to civilian infrastructure and civilian sites bearing much of the harm.

In Kyiv, Russian strikes on power plants killed six people and injured several others. The reports named energy facilities as the targets, and the toll was recorded among people in the capital.

In Kharkiv, Russian drone strikes hit a kindergarten in the Kholodnohirskyi District. One person was killed and six others were injured.

A pattern in the days before

Two days earlier, on 20 October 2025, Russian soldiers killed five people and injured another in a mass shooting at a house in Zvanivka, in the Bakhmut area of Donetsk Oblast. That incident was categorised as an attack on civilians, a different method of violence from the drone and missile strikes on 22 October, but one that also fell on people at home.

An incident inside Russia

On 22 October 2025, three soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces were reported killed in an operation in Stavropol, in Russia's Stavropol Krai. The reports listed it among attacks in Russia during the invasion.

What the day shows

Taken together, the reports describe a day in which strikes on power plants in the capital and on a kindergarten in Kharkiv produced deaths and injuries among people on the ground. The reports give casualty figures for each location, and those figures are the clearest measure of the day's toll: six dead in Kyiv, one dead and six injured in Kharkiv.