Russian strike on Kharkiv hospital injures at least 73

A Russian strike hit a city clinical hospital in Kharkiv overnight, injuring at least 73 people, as a large attack on energy facilities across nine Ukrainian regions left more than 180,000 people without power in the Zhytomyr region on Tuesday morning.

Why it matters: The hospital strike came a day after at least 29 people were killed at an aid distribution centre, and the overnight attacks on power generation and substations landed ahead of winter, with United States, Russian and Ukrainian officials due to meet in Abu Dhabi next week.

Data as of Al Jazeera report of November 3, 2026, bylined with AFP, Anadolu and Reuters and read in full in this run. The injury figure, the hospital damage and the drone and missile counts are Ukrainian officials' statements as reported there; the Russian Ministry of Defence statement is Russia's account as reported there. Developing item.

Russia struck a city clinical hospital in Kharkiv overnight, injuring at least 73 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The hospital’s cardiology department, where patients were receiving treatment, was damaged, and Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the building sustained heavy damage with more than 1,000 windows shattered.

Zelenskyy said Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles overnight, with power generation facilities and substations the main target across nine regions. More than 180,000 people in the Zhytomyr region were without power on Tuesday morning, according to Governor Vitalii Bunechko, and Odesa introduced scheduled outages. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had targeted electricity facilities in the Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, and said those sites supplied power to the Ukrainian army and military factories.

Russian strike on Kharkiv hospital injures at least 73

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