Russian Strikes Damage Five Major Ukrainian Transmission Substations

Overview

• Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said attacks overnight on 9–10 November struck five key transmission substations in Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia and Kirovohrad oblasts, widening outages across ten regions.
• Authorities reported two civilians killed in Ladyzhyn and nine injured in Kharkiv and Pereiaslav during the same wave of strikes.
• Emergency rolling power cuts and scheduled outages have been imposed in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava and Sumy oblasts while some consumers in six oblasts remained without electricity on the morning of 10 November.
• The strikes damaged social and medical facilities including a kindergarten in Kharkiv and a hospital in Bilozerka, Kherson Oblast, and followed earlier damage in Dnipropetrovsk that left large parts of Dnipro and Kamianske without power.
• Targeting transmission substations disrupts interregional electricity flows, slows repairs and increases humanitarian and critical-service risks as Ukraine’s air defenses cope with coordinated missile and drone waves.