Key facts
- Three people were injured when a drone hit the second floor of the Kyiv hospital and an adjoining 19th-century building, the report said.
- Hospital director Ronan Derkach said 30 patients were taken to safety and medical services were temporarily suspended.
- Deputy energy minister Artem Nekrasov said outages hit 12 regions, including Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk.
- Russia's defense ministry said it downed nearly 1,200 Ukrainian drones overnight, one of the largest swarms sent by Kyiv.
- Zelenskyy said Starshield speed restrictions had stopped Ukrainian interceptors reaching the speed needed to down drones.
A Russian drone struck the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district at 3am on November 13, 2026, injuring three people, according to the report. The drone hit the second floor of the six-storey hospital and an adjoining 19th-century building, blowing out windows in nearby buildings including the National Academy of Arts across the road.
Hospital director Ronan Derkach said medical services had been temporarily suspended as a clean-up got under way, and 30 patients were taken to safety. A witness identified only as Oleksandr said the strike had narrowly missed patients: "We were asleep when there was this massive boom."
The strike came after Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on November 12 that speed restrictions on SpaceX's Starshield system, the Ukrainian military's version of Starlink, had made it harder for Ukraine to shoot down enemy drones. He said some Russian aerial sorties had got through because Ukrainian interceptor systems relying on the US satellite service could not reach the necessary speed. The White House has not explained why the service was throttled for a second time, the report said.
Russia said it had shot down nearly 1,200 Ukrainian drones overnight, one of the largest swarms sent by Kyiv, and that at least four people were killed in the southern Volgograd region. Deputy energy minister Artem Nekrasov said Russian strikes on energy infrastructure caused power outages in 12 regions, listing Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Rivne, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Chernihiv.
The strike followed US-led diplomacy. Donald Trump's emissaries, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, met Vladimir Putin in Moscow on November 12 and then flew to Dublin to brief Zelenskyy, after trilateral negotiations on November 11 and 12 in Abu Dhabi. Kremlin negotiators insist Ukraine hand over four provinces and want NATO to return to its pre-1997 posture. France's president, Emmanuel Macron, said on November 12 that Europe had to take part since US support for Kyiv had ended.