Overview
- Ukraine’s energy minister reported a fresh large-scale strike on the power grid that forced emergency outages across multiple regions, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy citing more than 450 drones and 45 missiles launched overnight.
- A Russian drone hit a nine‑storey residential building in Dnipro, killing a woman and injuring at least 11 people including two children, as firefighters extinguished a blaze and authorities reported destroyed apartments.
- Regional disruptions included blackouts and transport interruptions in areas such as Poltava and Kharkiv, with local authorities opening warming centers and restoring service where possible.
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 181 combat clashes on November 7 and said defenders repelled 62 assaults in the Pokrovsk direction while reporting thousands of strikes and over 6,000 kamikaze drones used by Russian forces.
- Fighting in Pokrovsk remains fluid and street‑to‑street, with Russia claiming encirclement and house‑to‑house gains that Kyiv disputes; battlefield assertions have not been independently verified.