Key facts
- Dnipropetrovsk military chief Oleksandr Hanzha said hospitals switched to diesel generators and electric transport halted in Dnipro.
- Zelenskyy said 140 apartment buildings in the Zhytomyr region lost heating after a Russian strike.
- Poltava regional military administrator Vitali Dyakivnych said a residential building and a hotel were hit in Kremenchuk and 15 people were rescued.
- Odesa military administrator Oleh Kiper said drones struck electricity distribution centers, causing outages in the north of the region.
- Energoatom said the Zaporizhzhya plant lost external power for the 16th time in 2026 and called the situation extremely dangerous.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said nothing had been finalized on post-war security architecture and some progress could be made in Abu Dhabi.
Russian air strikes on Ukraine's power system left about 600,000 people without electricity in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, and emergency crews were working early on November 9 to restore supply, regional military chief Oleksandr Hanzha said. Hanzha said hospitals had switched to diesel generators and electric-powered public transport had halted in the regional capital, Dnipro, with repair work hampered by continued shelling.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there were widespread power outages across the country and that 140 apartment buildings in the Zhytomyr region alone lost heating after a Russian strike. In the Poltava region, at least four people were injured in Kremenchuk during drone attacks, regional military administrator Vitali Dyakivnych said; a residential building and a hotel were hit and 15 people were rescued from damaged structures.
Odesa military administrator Oleh Kiper said drones struck electricity distribution centers and other infrastructure in the Odesa region, causing outages in the north of the region. Russia's attacks continued late on November 8 and into the morning of November 9, Ukrainian authorities said.
Energoatom, Ukraine's nuclear power company, said late on November 8 that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya plant was again receiving external power from the Ukrainian system. It said the situation at the plant remained extremely dangerous and that the outage was the 16th complete loss of external supply in 2026. It was not immediately clear what caused the outage, though Ukraine reported Russian attacks on energy infrastructure in the nearby Zaporizhzhya region.