At least 30 dead - over 100 injured in Russia's attack

The town of Priluky in Chernihiv was hit the hardest when a high-rise apartment building was hit by a cruise robot. According to Ukrainian authorities, 22 people were killed in the attack. Five were children, three about a year old. At least 54 people were injured.

"It was pure terror. And the sound of the missiles, it's indescribable," neighbor Halyna Osovyk told the Kyiv Independent.

She knew some of those in the neighboring house who met. In one family, the grandmother, mother and a child were killed. Another child was rescued and taken to hospital.

Wednesday's attack was aimed at several places in Ukraine, including Krementyuk and the capital city of Kiev, where 2 and 4 people respectively and around 60 were injured. Electricity and water were cut off in the capital.

In total, there are at least 30 killed and 117 injured during the day, making it one of the worst in a very long time.

According to the think tank ISW, it is part of Putin's new strategy to force Ukraine to capitulate in the coming winter, by betting everything on an air war instead of the ground invasion, which is basically at a standstill.

In the think tank's latest report on the attack, it is noted that Russia has also changed strategy, and is concentrating its attacks with more missiles against fewer targets, in order to overload the Ukrainian air defenses on the ground. The information comes from Russian military bloggers who state that they attacked Krementyuk and Oleksandrija with 30 cruise robots. The jet-powered drones, which Ukraine has a harder time defending against, are used in combination with robots to break through Ukrainian defenses.

Up to and including August of this year, the number of Ukrainian civilian casualties in the war had increased by 55 percent compared to the same period last year, over 15,380 killed or injured.