Kharkiv, 2–12 Oct 2026

Guided bombs on 2 Oct (2 killed), 5 Oct (6 killed, 59 injured) and 11 Oct; a missile on a grocery store in Pisochyn (3 killed, incl. a 16-year-old); ~10 Banderol missiles on 12 Oct (4 killed, 41 injured, entrance section collapsed). The Commission of Inquiry qualified the Kharkiv glide-bomb campaign as war crimes in 2024.

War crimes — established CAH — pattern

Russia said. OSCE envoy Polyanskiy, 8 Oct: "impossible to hide the scale of the failure of Ukraine's air defence". Glide bombs are not engaged by air defence at all — the argument concedes whose bombs they are.

Official media. SES Kharkiv region, 12 Oct: 41 injured in the massed attack; photo gallery ↗

Evidence held: KAB and Banderol fragments (police); regional administration casualty lists per strike; HRW documentation of the Kryvyi Rih hospital strike (same weapon family); COI 2024 findings on Kharkiv.