Russia struck a Kharkiv hospital and energy sites across Ukraine overnight on 3 November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The missile, bomb, and drone attack killed one person in Dnipro and injured about 100 in four oblasts, by regional authorities' counts. It also damaged a hospital in Dnipro and came on the day of US congressional midterm elections.
Russia fired over 100 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and its oblast in the second half of October, Zelenskyy said. The US is still delaying the PAC-3 interceptors Ukraine needs to stop them. Washington's so-called energy ceasefire has meant pressure on Kyiv to spare Russian refineries, while Russia kept striking Ukraine's grid. US special envoy Steve Witkoff has set talks in Abu Dhabi for 10 and 11 November. Strikes on power plants and substations bring emergency blackouts, now with winter approaching.
A guided bomb between hospital buildings in Kharkiv
Russian forces struck Kharkiv's Nemyshlianskyi district from the air at around 03:20, prosecutors said. The munition hit the passage between two hospital buildings. It damaged the facade and wards, another medical facility, a laboratory, and windows in 10 apartment blocks.
The strike injured 73 people, among them patients, medical staff, and residents of nearby buildings. Investigators believe the weapon may have been a FAB-250 aerial bomb with a UMPK-5R guidance kit. Medics are evacuating 226 patients to other hospitals, Kharkiv Oblast head Oleh Synehubov said.
One killed as missiles hit Dnipro at dawn
Russian missiles struck Dnipro at dawn and killed one person, regional head Oleksandr Hanzha reported. Rescuers later pulled a woman out alive as the number of injured rose to 17, Hanzha said.
The attack damaged an outpatient clinic and a city hospital where nearly 100 people were being treated, he added. No patients or medics were hurt, and staff are moving patients elsewhere. Overnight attacks also injured four people in Nikopol district, the regional administration reported.
59 cruise missiles aimed at the grid
Russia launched 59 cruise missiles, ballistic and Zircon anti-ship missiles, and 289 drones, Ukraine's Air Force reported. Air defense downed 49 cruise missiles, three ballistic missiles, and 257 drones. Zelenskyy put the number of ballistic missiles at 17 in his morning post. The Air Force had last reported Kh-101 cruise missiles, launched from strategic bombers, on 7 October.
Russia hit three thermal power plants of private energy company DTEK with dozens of missiles and drones, the company reported. The damage is extensive, and all three plants stopped generating power. In Zhytomyr Oblast, about 130 settlements with more than 180,000 customers lost electricity, the regional administration said.
Most towns and villages in Vinnytsia Oblast lost power too, regional distributor Vinnytsiaoblenergo reported. Russia also damaged a substation of Ukrenergo, the national grid operator, in Rivne Oblast, regional head Oleksandr Koval said. Cherkasy Oblast switched to emergency blackouts on Ukrenergo's order.
At midnight, Russia struck a DTEK facility in southern Odesa Oblast. “The damage is significant. Restoring the equipment will take time,” the company said. Russia has hit the site several times over the past two months, the regional administration noted.
A strike Kyiv saw coming
On the evening of 2 November, Zelenskyy said intelligence showed Russia preparing a new mass strike. Its main targets would be energy and logistics, he added.
“In effect, the calculation is that tomorrow the world will be following the American elections, and that what is happening here in Ukraine, and our difficulties with air defense, with missiles for Patriots, will supposedly be beyond the world's attention,” he said.
After the attack, Zelenskyy called its timing very telling. “The Russians believe America will not notice this signal of theirs,” he wrote in the same post.
Victims of the past day across Ukraine
Russia's 2 November guided-bomb strikes on Komyshuvakha have now killed 29, acting Zaporizhzhia Oblast head Mykhailo Semikin reported. Five people are wounded, and 48 are missing. Russian bombs hit a school where residents received humanitarian aid. The oblast has declared three days of mourning.
Hours after Trump declared an energy ceasefire, Russia hit Kharkiv power plant, one of 200-plus strikes on Ukraine’s grid this week, Zelenskyy says
Russian attacks in Kharkiv Oblast killed two people and injured 114 over the past day, Synehubov's daily summary showed. Two children are among the injured, and the count includes the city of Kharkiv. In Izium, Russia killed a 44-year-old man and injured 34 people, including girls aged 14 and 10. A 51-year-old man died in the village of Cherkaska Lozova.
On 2 November, Russia killed a 61-year-old man in Synelnykove district, Hanzha said. Russian attacks also injured a 4-year-old and a 10-year-old boy in Nikopol district and a man in Kryvyi Rih district.
In Donetsk Oblast, Russian attacks killed four people and injured six on 2 November, regional head Vadym Filashkin reported. Russian drones killed a 63-year-old man and injured a 61-year-old woman in Sumy Oblast's Mykolaivka community, the regional administration said. In Kherson Oblast, Russian attacks injured seven people, regional authorities reported.
As the overnight attack began, Russia wounded a 15-year-old boy in Kyiv Oblast's Bucha district, the regional administration said. In Cherkasy, a Russian attack injured two people, the State Emergency Service reported.
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