Russia strikes energy grid across four Ukrainian regions

Russian strikes overnight hit energy installations in the Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi regions, and Ukraine's air force said it shot down 371 of 433 long-range drones launched since the previous night.

Why it matters: The strikes extend Russia's campaign against the substations and transmission lines that carry power to homes into a new set of regions, and Kyiv says the intensity is being set by its shortage of ballistic missile interceptors as winter approaches.

Data as of UOL report of November 1, 2026, in Portuguese, read in full in this run via the live browser; the text carries no wire credit. Its headline says hundreds of thousands lost power, citing President Zelensky, while its body says hundreds of people and gives no total, so no outage total is stated here. Air force and counterstrike figures are the Ukrainian side's claims; the Nizhny Novgorod damage is confirmed in the report by the Russian regional governor. Developing item.

Russian strikes overnight hit energy installations in four Ukrainian regions, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi, striking substations, transformers and transmission lines that supply homes, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram, with repair teams working to restore service. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 371 of 433 long-range drones launched by Russia since the previous night, and Zelensky said Moscow is exploiting Ukraine’s shortage of ballistic missile interceptors to maximise the intensity of the attacks. Ukraine said its own strikes hit the Kamensky factory in Russia’s Rostov region and a defence industry site Zelensky valued at about 70 million dollars of air defence assets, and caused significant damage to an industrial facility in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which regional governor Gleb Nikitin confirmed; Russia’s defence ministry said it shot down 235 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Russia strikes energy grid across four Ukrainian regions

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