On the evening of November 8, the Ukrainian Air Force warned that jet-powered Geran drones were heading for Hlobyne and Semenivka, both in the Poltava Oblast. An hour later, an industrial site in Hlobyne was on fire — one of many hits in a wave of strikes that stretched across central Ukraine and reached the capital’s bridges. Stanislav Dzhus, head of the Hlobyne district, urged residents not to drive to the site or stand nearby while rescuers and firefighters worked at the scene. Regional military administration chief Vitaliy Diakivnych offered a brief statement: a “private enterprise” had been hit, with no casualties. Alternative sources say the target was the Hlobyne plant, where long-range drones were assembled and stored.
Overnight, Russian strikes also hit Bila Tserkva, the largest city in the Kyiv Oblast south of the capital. Acting Mayor Volodymyr Vovkotrub confirmed damage to energy facilities and warned of possible outages. The city had already lost water for several hours on November 2, and on November 5 a battery storage park serving defense enterprises was struck.
In Kyiv itself, a series of strikes on November 7 hit the city’s bridges. Afterward, specialists imposed lasting restrictions. On the Northern Bridge, freight traffic has stopped, and only public transport may cross to the right bank, one lane at a time. On the Southern Bridge, Green Line metro service has been halted, and trucks are barred from crossing to the right bank.
The wave also rolled through the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Kryvyi Rih switched to generators overnight. Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city’s defense council, said a strike on an infrastructure site outside of the city left part of it “effectively in a blackout.” Trams, trolleybuses, boiler houses, and pumping stations lost power. Electricity returned by morning. A day earlier, more than 600,000 customers in the region were without power at the peak, and trains there are still pulled by diesel locomotives.
In Cherkasy, explosions were heard twice, around 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. By morning, the regional chief had posted only air raid alerts, with no word on the consequences. The utility, meanwhile, published outage schedules for all of Monday, along with restrictions on industry. A strike on a traction substation was also reported in Vinnytsia Oblast.
Behind these local incidents stands a national total. The Ukrainian government counts for more than 2,000 hits on critical infrastructure since August.
Officials speak briefly, or not at all, while the damage speaks for itself. Bridges are closing, trains are slowing, and entire cities are living on generators. Two thousand strikes in three months are not a series of incidents. It is a campaign, and winter has barely begun.
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