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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that a Russian ballistic missile attack targeted Kyiv late on October 13 with the main objective being the CHPP-4 combined heat and power plant which supplies electricity and heating to multiple districts in the capital. Zelensky posted on social media that Ukrainian detection systems only identified the missiles as they neared the city and that no advance notification came from international partners marking the second such occurrence in consecutive nights. The president added that intelligence indicated Russia was preparing further ballistic missile launches while stressing that the strike demonstrated Moscow did not feel bound by recent diplomatic understandings.
According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko one person was killed and 13 others injured in the attack on a nine-story apartment building in the Desnianskyi district with four of the wounded in serious condition. Klitschko reported that the missile ignited a fire spreading through apartments from the first to the eighth floor as rescuers worked overnight to contain the blaze and assist those affected. The mayor’s updates confirmed emergency teams responded to both the energy facility and the residential site hit in the strikes.
CHPP-4 has been struck multiple times during the conflict according to Ukrainian energy officials who noted it was severely damaged in a February 2026 Russian missile attack that forced the plant to cease operations. The facility serves the Dniprovskyi district and sections of the Darnytskyi district providing critical heating as winter conditions approach. Data compiled by Ukraine’s energy operators places repeated targeting of such sites at the center of efforts to degrade national power capacity ahead of colder months.
Zelensky observed that the assault followed US President Donald Trump’s declaration of an energy ceasefire between the warring parties by only a matter of days. In statements earlier that week the Ukrainian leader said Russia had struck six energy facilities since the announcement injuring 33 people nationwide according to figures from the presidential office. Zelensky told international media that Ukraine had supported the proposed truce but that continued Russian actions on power infrastructure and civilian areas raised serious doubts about its implementation.
Ukraine’s largest private energy company DTEK has recorded this incident as part of more than 220 attacks on its thermal generation assets since the full-scale invasion began the firm said in assessments of cumulative damage. The operator has introduced emergency power rationing in impacted zones to safeguard remaining grid stability as repairs proceed. Officials with DTEK stated that full restoration timelines for facilities like CHPP-4 would depend on the scale of destruction sustained in the latest barrage.
The Ukrainian air force confirmed it received no partner information regarding the ballistic launches from Russian territory which prevented any preemptive air raid alert. Zelensky described the lack of warnings as absolutely unjust amid ongoing destruction of energy infrastructure. Separate reporting from regional authorities indicated similar patterns of delayed notifications had compounded challenges in shielding both military and civilian targets from recent volleys.
