Overnight on 7 November, Russia launched another massive drone attack against Ukraine, using Iranian-designed Shahed long-range explosive drones and aerial decoys in an effort to penetrate Ukraine’s air defenses. The assault injured at least three civilians in the cities of Kyiv and Odesa, according to local authorities. Other Russian attacks killed at least one civilian and injured two more in Sumy and Donetsk oblasts.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 106 Shahed-type one-way strike drones and unidentied UAVs from the directions of Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Orel in Russia, as well as the temporarily occupied Crimea. The report states that as of 12:00, 74 Russian drones were confirmed downed, with an additional 25 “locationally lost,” meaning they disappeared from radar and may have crashed.
The figures suggest that at least seven drones might have reached their targets or remained in the air at the time of reporting. As of 12:42, at least one Russian drone was still airborne, according to Ukrainian airspace monitoring channels.
Drone assault on Kyiv injured two civilians
In Kyiv, drone debris ignited fires in multiple locations, according to local authorities. The Holosiivskyi District saw apartments damaged in a residential building, and a nearby car repair facility caught fire. In Pecherskyi District, a drone-induced fire broke out on the 33rd floor of a high-rise, prompting an evacuation of residents due to smoke and structural damage extending to the 34th floor, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko. The Podilskyi District reported a fire in a two-story private house, and the Obolonskyi District saw a business center’s top floor catch fire. Fires also broke out in a detached home and a medical clinic in the Solomyanskyi District.
Kyiv’s City Military Administration says the attack injured two civilians, as air defenses neutralized over 30 Russian drones around the capital. Kyiv residents endured an eight-hour air raid alert, with drones attacking in waves and at varying altitudes. Emergency responders extinguished multiple fires, though damage to buildings across six city districts remains extensive.
Drone hit a high-rise, injured a civilian in Odesa
In Odesa, Russian drones damaged the facade and windows of an 11-story residential building, affected two nearby five-story buildings, and damaged 14 vehicles. Oleg Kiper, the head of Odesa Oblast Military Administration, reported that a 30-year-old man sustained minor injuries, receiving assistance on-site. The incident also ruptured a gas pipeline, though it did not ignite.
Woman killed, two other civilians injured in Russian attacks on four other regions
Russian forces conducted airstrikes in Sumy Oblast, where guided bombs struck Yampil community, killing a 33-year-old woman at a gas station and injuring another woman, a 53-year-old railway worker, as per the local authorities. The bombing also damaged a gas station, residential buildings, and railway infrastructure. Additionally, Russian attacks targeted six other Sumy communities, employing artillery, FPV drones, and mortars.
In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian forces reportedly launched 299 attacks across 14 settlements over the past day, including airstrikes, artillery fire, and drone assaults, damaging homes and infrastructure but sparing civilians. The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast’s Kryvyi Rih area also came under attack, where Russian drones damaged a local business and five houses. No casualties were reported.
In Donetsk Oblast, Russian shelling injured one civilian in Sukhyi Yaly, and various infrastructure was damaged across the Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk districts. In Kharkiv Oblast, Russia launched guided bomb strikes, hitting open fields near the villages of Udy and Kostyantynivka, with no reported injuries.
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