Russia executed a substantial airborne assault throughout main and eastern Ukraine overnight, eliminating at the very least 4 individuals and hurting 26 others, according to Ukrainian authorities.
The Ukrainian Flying force claimed in a Telegram article Saturday early morning that Russia over night had actually introduced 503 projectiles– 458 drones and 45 rockets– of which 415 were obliterated while the continuing to be 78 struck 25 various places throughout Ukraine.
Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed in a Telegram article Saturday early morning that the targets of the current Russian strikes “continue to be the very same: normal life, domestic structures, our power system, and framework.”
The city of Dnipro was struck hard, with 3 individuals eliminated and one more 11 hurt there, according to the local armed forces management, which claimed kids were amongst the casualties. A drone struck an apartment in the city. 3 even more were hurt in the close-by Samarskyi area of the broader Dnipropetrovsk area, authorities claimed.
In the Kharkiv area, at the very least someone was eliminated in the town of Rokytne; 8 others were hurt in the residential areas of Kharkiv city; someone was hurt in close-by Chuhuiv; and one more was hurt in the town of Hrushivka, according to the local armed forces management. The mayor of Kharkiv claimed in a Telegram article Saturday early morning that the city is encountering a substantial power scarcity.
Apartment struck throughout a Russian drone strike, amidst Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine November 8, 2025.
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In addition, someone was hurt in the Poltava area and one more individual was hurt in the bordering Kyiv area, according to the corresponding local armed forces managements. The strikes on the Poltava area targeted power framework centers, removing power, water and home heating to some areas, authorities claimed.
The Russian strikes note the 9th large assault on Ukraine’s gas framework because the beginning of October, according to Ukrainian state-run power company Naftogaz, which in a Telegram article Saturday early morning implicated Russian of purposely “targeting ventures that supply Ukrainians with gas and warm” throughout the cold weather.
The Russian Ministry of Protection validated in a Telegram article Saturday early morning that it had actually targeted Ukrainian armed forces and power framework in an over night assault. The “substantial strike” was executed in action to “Ukraine’s terrorist strikes on private targets in Russia,” according to the Russian protection ministry.
