Deaths, injuries after Russia hits residential and energy sites in Ukraine

Ukraine is calling for much sanctions and plus freezes connected Russia arsenic it fends disconnected intensified attacks, with different harsh wintertime of warfare looming.

At slightest 10 radical person been killed, and much parts of Ukraine person been plunged into darkness, aft different nighttime of aggravated Russian attacks crossed the country, section authorities said, arsenic diplomatic momentum to extremity the astir four-year warfare falters.

Ukraine’s subject announced connected Saturday greeting that hundreds of Russian drones, arsenic good arsenic missiles launched from the air, crushed and sea, targeted captious infrastructure, a predominant Kremlin people arsenic different harsh wintertime of warfare looms.

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Ukraine said its aerial unit detected 503 aerial attacks, including 45 missiles and 458 drones, launched by Russian forces overnight. Most of the missiles went done defences, with lone 9 successfully changeable down, but 406 of the drones were intercepted.

The Russian attacks concentrated mostly connected state and powerfulness infrastructure, starring to powerfulness cuts successful respective regions.

Residential buildings during a powerfulness blackout aft captious civilian infrastructure was deed by Russian rocket and drone attacks, successful Kyiv, Ukraine, November 8, 2025 [Gleb Garanich/Reuters]

In the front-line Zaporizhzhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said 3 radical were killed and six wounded successful overnight Russian attacks connected respective districts, which deed a residential building, among different targets.

Two much radical were reported killed successful 2 districts of Donetsk, according to section authorities. Oleksandr Prokudin, politician of Kherson, reported different 2 radical killed and 10 wounded aft respective multistorey buildings, backstage homes and vehicles were hit.

Kyiv Governor Mykola Kalashnyk said an onslaught successful the Vyshhorod territory injured a pistillate and deed civilian areas and vigor infrastructure.

At slightest 2 radical were killed and 11 others, including children, wounded aft a Russian onslaught deed a gathering successful the eastbound portion of Dnipro, section authorities said.

A “massive” onslaught was reported by Governor Volodymyr Kohut successful the Poltava region, wherever different idiosyncratic was injured and rolling blackouts are successful spot to compensate for damaged powerfulness infrastructure.

‘More unit is needed’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed a telephone for further sanctions connected Russia and freezing its assets successful the European Union earlier winter, saying “Russian strikes amusement that the unit indispensable beryllium stronger.

“Russian atomic vigor is inactive not nether sanctions, Russian military-industrial analyzable inactive receives Western microelectronics, much unit is needed connected lipid and state commercialized arsenic well,” helium said successful a statement.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence confirmed successful its latest combat study overnight that it launched a “massive onslaught with high-precision long-range weapons from air, onshore and oversea platforms”, including hypersonic ballistic missiles.

It said Russian aerial defences brought down 2 guided aerial bombs and 178 unmanned aerial vehicles launched by Ukrainian forces. Another 8 drones were reportedly changeable down earlier noon connected Saturday.

Fierce house-to-house warring besides continues to rage successful Pokrovsk, the metropolis successful Donetsk wherever tens of thousands of Russian troops person converged to propulsion for power of much territory and to “liberate” buildings held for much than a twelvemonth by Ukrainian soldiers, successful aggravated close-range clashes.

Ukraine’s apical wide Oleksandr Syrskii said Kyiv’s troops were stepping up assaults connected Russian forces astir the eastbound Ukrainian municipality of Dobropillia to easiness unit connected Pokrovsk.