Kropyvnytskyi
City in central Ukraine, administrative centre of Kirovohrad Oblast; named Kirovohrad until 2016.
Kropyvnytskyi, capital of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine, lost three residents on 14-15 October 2026 when Russian drones struck the region through more than ten hours of a night of more than 850 drones.
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Kropyvnytskyi is the administrative centre of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine, with an estimated 219,676 residents in 2022. Ukraine's Parliament renamed it on 14 July 2016, replacing Kirovohrad, the Soviet name the city had carried since 1939. The region still bears the old name.
Its distance from the front has not spared it. On 14-15 October 2026 Russian drones attacked Kirovohrad region for more than ten hours, killing three people in Kropyvnytskyi and injuring six.
Those deaths came on the night Russia sent more than 850 drones at 15 Ukrainian regions, days after Donald Trump claimed that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt strikes on Energy infrastructure.
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