Overview
- Ukraine claimed overnight drone strikes on Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery, a major facility more than 400 kilometers from the front, with local social posts showing unverified images of fires and explosions.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said it shot down 75 Ukrainian drones overnight, mostly over the Volgograd region.
- Ukraine’s air force reported shooting down or disrupting 94 of 128 drones Russia launched overnight, with confirmed damage to energy infrastructure in the Odessa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
- Emergency crews in Odessa put out fires at energy sites with no reported casualties, while regional authorities said a 53-year-old man was killed in shelling in Kherson.
- Kyiv’s General Staff confirmed a strike on a Shahed drone logistics hub at Donetsk airport on Nov. 5, with Ukrainian officials claiming roughly 1,000 drones were destroyed, a figure not independently verified.