Sloviansk, Donetsk region, 30 Oct 2026

On 30 October, at about 14:40, Russian aircraft dropped three FAB-250 aerial bombs on two parts of Sloviansk, damaging about 30 private houses, an apartment building, a post office branch and a petrol station. The same day a Russian FPV drone hit a car in which a 16-year-old railway college student was travelling with his parents. He was killed on the spot; his mother and father were injured and are in hospital. By the next morning the city counted two killed — the boy and a man aged 73 — and twelve injured.

Russian aerial bombs and an FPV drone on Sloviansk; 2 killed, among them a boy aged 16 — established (Ukrainian authorities) Short-range drones hunting civilians near the front line — pattern (UN Commission of Inquiry, Kherson region) A deliberate attack on civilians — position (Ukraine)

Russia said. Nothing on the Sloviansk strikes as of 31 October. Its standing line at the UN is that it strikes "only military facilities and infrastructure".

Evidence held: Sloviansk city military administration (V. Liakh), 30–31 Oct; Donetsk regional military administration (V. Filashkin), 31 Oct. On 30 Oct the Secretary-General's Spokesperson cited an armoured evacuation vehicle hit in Sloviansk.