Russian attacks killed at least 5 people and injured at least 44 across Ukraine over the past day, as its forces attacked a passenger train in Odesa Oblast, local authorities said on Aug. 22-23.In Odesa Oblast, a Russian jet-powered attack drone hit a passenger train that was traveling from Zhytomyr to Odesa, Ukrainian Railways CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi said in a post on Facebook on Aug. 23. There were 593 passengers on board, including 15 children, but no casualties were reported as an evacuation was ordered in time and the train was brought to an emergency halt on the track, Pertsovskyi said.Alongside the attack on Odesa Oblast, Russian forces launched 127 drones across Ukraine overnight on Aug. 23, the Air Force said. Ukrainian air defense downed 97 drones over the north, south, and east of the country. Twenty-seven drones made it through and struck 22 locations, and the debris of downed drones was found at three locations, the report read.In southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast, three people were killed, and 20 were injured by Russian attacks, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said on Aug. 23. Russian forces carried out 559 attacks on 40 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast over the past day, Fedorov said.He later added at around 10 a.m. local time that Russia attacked the area around a shopping center in the city of Zaporizhzhia. A 49-year-old man was injured as a result of the attack.In eastern Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed and five injured in Russian strikes in the region over the past day, governor Vadym Filashkin said.In southern Kherson Oblast, Russian attacks in the region injured 11 people, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.In northeastern Kharkiv Oblast, over the past day, three people were injured, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported on Aug. 23 that overnight Russia launched a drone attack on a post office in the town of Lozova, Kharkiv Oblast, and a fire broke out covering an area of 350 square meters.Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast injured two people over the past day, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported, according to the reports published on Aug. 22 and Aug. 23.July of 2026 saw the most civilians killed or injured in Ukraine since March 2022, according to the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).At least 437 civilians in Ukraine were killed and 2,610 injured in July alone, the monitoring group said on Aug. 13. This represents a 30% increase from June, which previously held the record for the deadliest month since April 2022.Ukrainian civilian casualties in July 2026 were 70% higher than July the previous year, while casualties among children also rose to their highest level since April 2022, with 17 children killed and 166 injured.