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What happened in Ukraine on 26 October 2022?
Summary
A retrospective on a Russian missile strike on Dnipro and the pressure on Ukraine's energy supply in the preceding days.
What did the war look like on 26 October 2022? On that date a Russian missile strike on Dnipro killed two people, including a pregnant woman. The attack was recorded among strikes on civilians during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The strike came as Ukraine's energy system was under sustained pressure. On 22 October 2022, power outages were reported across the country, and citizens were advised to store water as Russian airstrikes continued to damage critical infrastructure and energy facilities.
Damage to power generation
Two days earlier, on 20 October 2022, a Russian missile struck a major thermal power station in Burshtyn, in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Governor Svitlana Onyshchuk said it caused "quite serious damage".
Iranian drones
Also on 20 October 2022, the United States reported that Iranian troops were in Crimea, assisting the Russian military in using Iranian drones.
Taken together, the reports from 20 to 26 October 2022 show a pattern: repeated strikes on energy facilities and infrastructure, outages and water-storage advice for civilians, and a missile attack on Dnipro that killed two people on 26 October 2022.
