Overview
- Ukrenergo announced nationwide rotating outages on Sunday, as Centrenergo reported power generation had fallen to zero after what it called the heaviest attacks on its heating plants since 2022.
- Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 458 drones and 45 rockets in the overnight wave, with authorities reporting widespread disruptions to electricity, heat and water and civilian casualties including at least one death in Dnipro.
- Kyiv says drones struck two substations that supply the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear plants, and it is seeking an emergency IAEA Board of Governors meeting over nuclear safety risks.
- Geolocated footage cited by the Institute for the Study of War indicates recent Russian advances toward Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, while Moscow touts encirclement claims that Kyiv disputes.
- Ukrainian authorities opened a criminal case over a forbidden troop ceremony that was hit on November 1, with a court ordering the commander’s arrest after dozens were killed and wounded.