The State Emergency Service said the number of injured had risen to 23, including four children, the youngest of them ten months old. Rescuers extinguished fires that broke out after the attack and provided psychological assistance to 17 people, including four children.
Ukraine's Interior Minister Ivan Vyhovskyi said the strike hit an ordinary city street. According to him, houses, shops and cars were damaged, and the strike had no military meaning.
Viacheslav Chaus, head of the Chernihiv regional military administration, said another 25 people were wounded, including two children — a brother and sister — in serious condition.
On the same day, Russian forces attacked Kremenchuk in the Poltava region. A drone hit a residential high-rise, killing three people and wounding 15 others, including a six-year-old child, wrote Vitalii Diakivnych, head of the Poltava regional military administration.
The Russian army also attacked the railway station in Dnipro. The death toll from the strike on one of the platforms rose to 14.
Commenting on the tragedy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it demonstrated the ineffectiveness of Western attempts to push Moscow toward peace through persuasion and the lifting of sanctions on businessmen close to the Kremlin. Since the start of October, Russian strikes have led to mass civilian deaths three times — in Pryluky in the Chernihiv region, Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region and Zaporizhzhia. Those three strikes claimed more than 80 lives.
The UN has recorded a sharp increase in casualties from strikes on Ukraine's rear this autumn: in September 2026 they were 85% higher than in September 2025.
Sources differ on the casualty figures in Chernihiv: the State Emergency Service reports 23 injured, including four children, while Chaus said 25 were wounded, among them two children in serious condition. The death toll in both accounts is the same — two 15-year-old girls.