Russia Overnight Strike on Ukraine: Moscow Claims Hits on Defence Industry as Kyiv’s Pivdennyi Bridge Is Damaged

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on 27 October 2026 that its forces carried out a “massive” overnight strike on Ukraine using ground-launched precision weapons and attack drones, claiming hits on defence-industry plants, transport infrastructure in Kyiv and vessels used by Ukraine’s armed forces. Ukrainian officials reported casualties in Kyiv, Kharkiv and the Zaporizhzhia region, as well as damage to Kyiv’s Pivdennyi (Southern) Bridge and its metro line.

What Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed

According to the ministry’s statement, the overnight strike targeted enterprises of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex involved in the production and storage of long- and medium-range cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. It also listed transport infrastructure facilities in Kyiv, a logistics centre in the Kharkiv region and maritime vessels it said were being used in the interests of Ukrainian forces.

The ministry did not specify how many missiles or drones were launched, and its claims about the targets could not be independently verified. Ukraine’s Air Force had not published overall launch and interception figures at the time of writing.

Damage and casualties in Ukraine

In Kyiv, Klitschko said one person was killed and 14 residents were injured. A strike hit an administrative building in the Podilskyi district, and the Pivdennyi Bridge was struck, damaging metro infrastructure on the crossing. Service on part of the green metro line between Osokorky and Chervonyi Khutir was suspended, and road traffic on the bridge was restricted. Ukrainian media reported several successive ballistic missile launches towards the capital.

In Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported two people killed and four injured, according to preliminary figures. In the Zaporizhzhia region, regional head Ivan Fedorov said five people were injured, including a teenager.

Drone claims and the wider picture

In a separate post, Russia’s Defence Ministry said its air defences intercepted and destroyed 222 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight over more than a dozen Russian regions, including Novgorod, Tver, Bryansk, Kursk, Tula and Rostov, as well as Krasnodar Krai, Crimea and the Black Sea. Ukraine did not immediately comment on the claim.

The strikes came only hours after a localised ceasefire took effect around Oleshky in the Kherson region at 04:00 Moscow time on 27 October. Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had halted fire in the area to prepare a humanitarian operation, while Ukrainian officials said the arrangement is meant to allow aid deliveries and civilian evacuations. The latest attack follows a series of large Russian missile and drone raids on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure earlier this month.

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