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Russia Launches Coordinated Drone and Bomb Strikes Across Ukraine

Despite high interception rates, strikes that broke through damaged power facilities and apartment blocks and will require lengthy repairs.

Overview

  • Ukrainian air forces said Saturday that Russia used 96 attack drones in an overnight wave and that 81 were shot down or suppressed, limiting but not preventing damage.
  • A DTEK energy facility in Odesa oblast was hit on Saturday, cutting electricity to nearly 50,000 people and prompting warnings that restoration will take time.
  • Zaporizhzhia was struck by guided aerial bombs on the evening of 14 November, damaging apartment blocks and dozens of cars and injuring six people, including a two‑year‑old.
  • Separate strikes across Sumy, Chernihiv, Donetsk and Kherson caused fires, damaged civilian buildings and vehicles, and produced multiple casualties including a woman killed by an FPV drone in Kramatorsk district.
  • Emergency services and local authorities are conducting firefighting, rescues and grid repairs, and officials say repeated attacks on energy and infrastructure suggest a sustained effort to degrade civilian services.