In brief: More than 600,000 consumers across Dnipropetrovsk region, including the city of Dnipro and surrounding districts, were left without electricity following an overnight Russian drone assault on critical infrastructure, energy operator DTEK reported on Sunday, Nov. 8. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 137 of 164 drones, but impacts were confirmed across 23 locations, including an industrial site in Rivne region. Concurrently, Russian shelling killed five people in Donetsk region, while Moscow claimed responsibility for striking a substation in Zhytomyr and targeting port infrastructure in Odesa.
More than 600,000 people in central-eastern Ukraine have been left without electricity following a Russian attack on critical infrastructure, according to one of the country’s major energy suppliers.
Private provider DTEK said that the overnight drone attacks in the Dnipropetrovsk region had damaged “important facilities,” adding that “the enemy is again massively attacking the energy sector.”
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The city of Dnipro and the Pavlograd, Samariva, Kamyansky, Dniprovsky districts have been affected, DTEK said.
“Electric engineers in the region are already working to restore electricity. The work is complicated by repeated attacks,” it added.
Ukraine is facing a potentially tough winter, with Russia expected to keep up its bombardment of energy facilities, deploying ballistic missiles alongside cheaper drones.
The lack of interceptors for the US-made Patriot air defense systems remains a serious issue for the authorities in Kyiv, who have issued repeated appeals to allies to donate weapons amid a global shortage.
Industrial facilities hit
Ukrainian forces managed to down or neutralize 137 of the 164 drones launched by Russia overnight, air force officials said, but hits were recorded in 23 locations, with debris striking the ground in six other places.
One attack caused a fire at an industrial facility in the western Rivne region, destroying one of its buildings, officials said on Sunday morning.
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Officials in the Black Sea port city of Odesa announced on Saturday night that one person had been killed as a result of an attack that also impacted infrastructure.
A total of five people were also killed due to Russian shelling in the frontline Donetsk region over the past day, regional officials announced.
Russia confirms Odesa strike
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that its forces had hit energy infrastructure used by Ukrainian military, as well as a container ship, apparently delivering weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, in strikes to the south-west of Odesa.
Russia also said its forces had hit a power substation in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region.
One person was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Kursk region, regional governor Alexander Khinshtein said.