Russia carries out ‘massive attack’ on Ukraine, killing at least 4 and wounding 26
Russia carried out a massive airstrike in central and eastern Ukraine overnight, killing at least four people and wounding 26 others, according to Ukrainian authorities.
The Ukrainian Air Force said in a post on Telegram on Saturday morning that Russia had launched 503 projectiles overnight (458 drones and 45 missiles), of which 415 were shot down while the remaining 78 hit 25 different locations in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post on Saturday morning that the targets of the latest Russian attacks “remain the same: ordinary life, residential buildings, our energy system and infrastructure.”
The city of Dnipro was hit hard, with three people killed and 11 others wounded there, according to the regional military administration, which said the victims included children. A drone hit an apartment building in the city. Three more were injured in the nearby Samarskyi district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, authorities said.
In the Kharkiv region, at least one person died in the village of Rokytne; another eight people were injured in the suburbs of the city of Kharkiv; one person was injured in nearby Chuhuiv; and another was wounded in the village of Hrushivka, according to the regional military administration. The mayor of Kharkiv said in a Telegram post on Saturday morning that the city is facing a major electricity shortage.
Apartment buildings hit during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on November 8, 2025.
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Additionally, one person was injured in the Poltava region and another in the neighboring kyiv region, according to the respective regional military administrations. The attacks in the Poltava region targeted energy infrastructure facilities, cutting off electricity, water and heat to some communities, authorities said.
The Russian attacks mark the ninth large-scale attack on Ukraine’s gas infrastructure since early October, according to Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz, which in a post on Telegram on Saturday morning accused Russia of “deliberately targeting companies that provide gas and heat to Ukrainians” during the winter months.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed in a Telegram post on Saturday morning that it had attacked Ukraine’s military and energy infrastructure in an overnight attack. The “massive attack” was carried out in response to “Ukrainian terrorist attacks against civilian targets in Russia,” according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
