Story · 23 October 2026

Russian attack destroys shops in Kyiv

These photographs show the aftermath of a Russian ballistic missile attack on an Epicentr K home improvement hypermarket and the surrounding shopping area in the Obolonskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine, on 22 October 2026. The captions state that Russian forces struck the Ukrainian capital with ballistic missiles and drones on Thursday night. The frames show destroyed and damaged buildings, State Emergency Service rescue workers extinguishing fires, some using an aerial work platform, a man clearing rubble, and men searching for goods among the wreckage. Other pictures show a book from the Harry Potter series by British author J. K. Rowling lying among the rubble. The images are available to license on Fast Media.