The attacks struck two shopping centres and multiple energy sites, with officials reporting fatalities and damage in Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Volyn, Rivne and Sumy.
In the eastern city of Kharkiv, a 71-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man were killed and 12 people wounded across three districts, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Two people were killed in Kramatorsk, a frontline city in the Donetsk region, and two more in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region.
In the northwestern Volyn region, which borders Poland, a drone strike on a food-processing facility killed one person and wounded eight, Governor Roman Romaniuk said. Drones also hit a customs terminal and set fire to about 10 trucks in the town of Kovel, on a major road from Kyiv to Poland. About 370,000 households lost power in Volyn, with supply restored to at least 100,000 of them, though the blackout could last at least 24 hours in the regional capital Lutsk, Mayor Andriy Razumovskyi said.
In Rivne, drones hit a major shopping centre and other sites, killing one person and wounding seven, regional governor Oleksandr Koval said. A shopping centre in Sumy, close to the front line, was also hit. Ukraine's Ministry of Energy said repair crews had restored power to more than a million people who lost it on Friday. Large parts of Rivne were also left without power.
Russia's military chief told President Vladimir Putin on Friday that the military had allocated the assets needed to press its aerial campaign against Ukraine's energy system.
The United Nations said on Friday that civilian casualties in Ukraine had climbed steeply. According to UN human rights monitors, at least 328 civilians were killed and 2,105 wounded in Ukraine last month, 85 percent more than in September 2025. Between January and September 2026, 2,570 civilians have been killed and 15,211 wounded, almost 60 percent higher than the same period last year.