Kharkiv kindergarten hit by Russian drones on 22 October 2025
A retrospective on a drone strike in Kharkiv's Kholodnohirskyi District that killed one person and injured six.
What happened in Kharkiv on 22 October 2025? Russian drones struck a kindergarten in the city's Kholodnohirskyi District, in Kharkiv Oblast. One person was killed and six others were injured.
The strike was one of several attacks on civilians reported in Ukraine in the days around that date. Two days earlier, on 20 October 2025, Russian soldiers killed five people and injured another in a mass shooting at a house in Zvanivka, in the Bakhmut area of Donetsk Oblast.
Both incidents were reported as part of the Russo-Ukrainian war and, in the case of Zvanivka, as a war crime against civilians. The reports on the Kharkiv strike gave no further details on the identities of the dead or injured.
