Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said round‑the‑clock repair work is underway nationwide, with Ukrenergo maintaining scheduled outages on Monday to balance the system.
- Ukraine reported 458 drones and 45 missiles launched overnight on Nov. 7–8, followed by 69 more drones the next night, with multiple thermal plants knocked offline and Centrenergo’s output temporarily at zero.
- Authorities confirmed widespread electricity, heating and water disruptions, with casualties including a drone strike on a residential block in Dnipro and roughly 100,000 households in Kharkiv left without basic services on Sunday.
- Ukrainian officials said drones struck substations serving the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear plants and called for IAEA attention to nuclear‑safety risks.
- Ukraine carried out retaliatory strikes on Russian border‑region energy sites, and regional officials in Belgorod, Voronezh and Kursk reported temporary power and heat outages affecting tens of thousands.