Overnight drone and ballistic missile attacks damaged Ukrainian energy infrastructure, causing blackouts and disrupting water supplies, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Twelve Ukrainian regions came under attack, with the capital Kyiv hit hardest, and nine people were reported hurt across the country, including one child, in a wave that consisted of more than 30 ballistic missiles and over 170 drones. In the Kyiv region, strikes hit substations that connect the Rivne and Khmelnytsky nuclear power plants to Kyiv and central Ukraine; afterwards, around 60% of the capital's apartment buildings were reconnected to heating, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Ukrenergo scheduled outages of between 1.5 and 4 queues for November 8.