Kherson's city military administration head, Yaroslav Shanko, said the dead man was a driver for an ambulance crew. Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson regional military administration, put the number of injured in the city at 19, while the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported 12 wounded, including three children. The prosecutor's office had earlier spoken of 15 injured.
Among the wounded were a one-month-old infant and his parents, a 28-year-old mother and a 37-year-old father, Shanko said. The family suffered blast injuries, closed head injuries and acoustic barotrauma and was taken to hospital in moderate condition. An 11-year-old girl sustained a closed head injury, acoustic barotrauma and a lacerated wound to the back of the head; her condition was assessed as moderate.
According to preliminary data from the prosecutor's office, Russian forces dropped eight guided aerial bombs on the city. The State Emergency Service reported 10 damaged apartment blocks. Fires broke out and people were trapped under rubble; rescuers pulled seven people out. Shanko said attacks on Kherson using aircraft, artillery and drones continued over the course of a day.
In Kharkiv, missile strikes wounded 15 people, including three children. One hit landed on a warehouse building in the Nemyshlyansky district, where a fire broke out across 100 square metres. Nearby apartment buildings were damaged. Four fires broke out in total after the attack and rescuers extinguished them.
In Zaporizhzhia, the latest figures put the number of injured at six, including a child. Residential buildings were damaged. Rescuers put out fires in two cars and in a non-residential premises across 50 square metres, and helped residents leave their apartments. Emergency rescue work has been completed.
According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russia struck overnight into 17 October with Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles launched from the Voronezh and Rostov regions and from the territory of annexed Crimea. Kh-22/32 cruise missiles were also launched from there. Four Kalibr cruise missiles were fired from Novorossiysk. A total of 332 attack drones, including Shahed-type, were also used in the attacks. By 8:00 a.m., Ukrainian air defences had shot down four Kalibr missiles and 289 drones, the Air Force said.
Russia's Defence Ministry made no mention of strikes on Kherson in its summary. The ministry said it had hit the Zaporizhstal metallurgical plant and the Zaporozhtransformator enterprise in the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as a metallurgical plant in Kryvyi Rih and a power substation in Zhytomyr.