Russian missiles hit Kyiv power plant and apartment block as Zelensky says allies gave no early warning

KYIV — Russian ballistic missiles struck the Ukrainian capital overnight on Oct. 13–14, hitting a key heating and electricity plant and a nine-storey apartment building, as President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine again received no early warning from Western partners, the BBC reported.

Zelensky said the main energy target was Darnytska CHP-4 (also called CHPP-4), which supplies heating and electricity to parts of Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi and Darnytskyi districts. “A Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. Once again, no early warning from our partners,” he wrote, according to Euronews and the BBC. “Our system detected these missiles almost as they were approaching Kyiv,” he added.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a missile struck a residential building in the Desnianskyi district late Tuesday, igniting a large fire. He reported at least two people killed and 21 injured, with 16 hospitalized and four in serious condition; Kyiv Post said those injured included an eight-year-old child. The Kyiv Independent later reported a third fatality as search-and-rescue continued and said several energy facilities were among the targets.

Ukraine’s Air Force and presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn said partners provided no launch alerts on either Oct. 12 or Oct. 13 — the second consecutive night Kyiv was hit without the usual allied notification, the Kyiv Independent and Kyiv Post reported. Ukrainian officials said they were investigating why the notifications were missing.

The strikes came days after U.S. President Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energy ceasefire.” Zelensky said Ukraine supported such a pause while Russia continued to hit power plants. “Ukraine supported an energy ceasefire. Russia is targeting yet another power plant and the lives of our people,” he said, according to the BBC. Trump on Tuesday denied cutting intelligence sharing, saying the U.S. was “helping them and we are sharing intel.”

CHP-4 has been hit before in the war, including a February 2026 strike that forced a shutdown and left more than 1,000 residential buildings without heating and hot water, along with dozens of schools and medical facilities, Reuters material cited by the BBC said.

Zelensky urged vigilance as Ukrainian intelligence warned of further ballistic launches, Kyiv Post reported. Air-raid alerts also sounded in parts of western Ukraine far from the front, the Kyiv Independent said. Deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure is a war crime under international humanitarian law, Kyiv Post noted.

Sources: The Kyiv Independent (Oct. 13–14, 2026); BBC News (Oct. 14, 2026); Euronews (Oct. 14, 2026); Kyiv Post (Oct. 14, 2026).