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Russia announced that its military struck four thermal power plants, two electricity substations and port infrastructure in Ukraine during a large-scale overnight attack on November 3, as Ukrainian authorities reported extensive damage to the country’s energy network, emergency power cuts and casualties in several regions.
In two separate statements, the Russian Defense Ministry said the strikes involved precision-guided weapons launched from land- and air-based platforms, as well as long-range attack drones. It identified the Ladyzhyn Thermal Power Plant in Vinnytsia region, the Kryvyi Rih and Prydniprovska thermal power plants in Dnipropetrovsk region, and the Kharkiv Thermal Power Plant in Kharkiv region as targets.
In addition, the ministry named the Zmiiv and Loseve electricity substations, both operating at 330 kilovolts, among the targets hit.
In the Odesa region, Russian strikes hit port infrastructure at Kiliya, while two dry-cargo ships were hit at the port of Pivdennyi and in the Black Sea, the ministry said. It claimed the vessels were transporting military equipment and dual-use cargo for the Ukrainian armed forces.
Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said energy facilities in 10 regions came under attack, including Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Odesa, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi and Kharkiv.
The ministry described the damage in Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv regions as particularly extensive, saying damage to equipment had disrupted electricity transmission to consumers.
Emergency power outages were introduced in the capital and six regions — Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy and Kharkiv — because of damage to energy equipment and voltage drops across the high-voltage network. Restrictions on electricity consumption were also imposed in most other regions.
Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said three of its thermal power plants had stopped generating electricity after being hit by dozens of missiles and drones. The company described the destruction as extensive but did not disclose the locations of the facilities, the amount of generating capacity lost or an expected timeline for restoring operations.
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Railway infrastructure was also hit, with passenger carriages, diesel locomotives and a railway station damaged in Zaporizhzhia, while an electric locomotive was struck in Kovel, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi said.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities reported a large wave of Ukrainian drone attacks across the country overnight. The defense ministry said air defenses had intercepted and destroyed 856 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, Crimea and the Black Sea.
One of the most significant incidents occurred in Yaroslavl, where a Ukrainian drone attack damaged infrastructure at a major oil refinery and triggered a fire, regional Governor Mikhail Yevrayev said. He reported that 124 drones were involved in the attack on the facility and that two refinery employees sustained shrapnel wounds and were hospitalized.
Debris from intercepted drones also shattered windows in several apartment buildings and private homes and damaged vehicles.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 493 drones had been flying toward the Moscow region overnight, with 187 intercepted on approaches to the capital. The attack prompted temporary restrictions at airports serving the Moscow region and disrupted flight schedules, Russian media reported.
As Ukraine keeps targeting energy infrastructure inside Russia, Moscow has escalated its retaliatory strikes, which have grown larger and more frequent and have caused significant losses. Kyiv has so far shown no willingness to change course.
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