Key facts
- Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said 17 people were injured in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast over the past 24 hours, including three children.
- One person was killed in Sloviansk and eight were injured across Donetsk Oblast, Governor Vadym Filashkin reported.
- Sumy Oblast's regional military administration reported 12 injured and said air raid sirens sounded for 23 hours 57 minutes.
- Governor Oleh Syniehubov said seven people were injured in Kharkiv Oblast, among them a 16-year-old girl.
- DTEK said energy workers were working to restore damaged equipment when it is safe to do so.
- Russian drones struck 16 locations and debris fell in 14 areas, Ukraine's air force said.
Russian attacks across Ukraine killed one person and injured at least 47 over the past day, regional authorities reported on November 1, as Moscow continued strikes on energy infrastructure.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian strikes hit power infrastructure in four Ukrainian regions overnight, cutting electricity to hundreds of thousands of households. "As things stand, hundreds of thousands of families remain without electricity," he said, calling on allies to speed up support. "Russia is destroying our infrastructure and killing our people right now ... accordingly, decisions regarding air defense must be implemented now," Zelenskiy said.
Ukraine's air force said it downed 371 of 433 long-range drones, including jet-powered Shahed attack drones, launched by Russia overnight. Russian drones struck 16 locations and debris fell in 14 areas, it said. Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces downed 235 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight.
In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, 17 people were injured over the past 24 hours, including three children, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. Governor Vadym Filashkin reported one person killed in Sloviansk and eight injured across Donetsk Oblast. Sumy Oblast's regional military administration reported 12 injured and said air raid sirens sounded for 23 hours 57 minutes. Governor Oleh Syniehubov said seven were injured in Kharkiv Oblast, among them a 16-year-old girl. A 14-year-old was reported injured in Poltava Oblast, and one person was injured in each of Volyn and Kyiv Oblasts.
DTEK introduced emergency power outages in Kyiv after the overnight attacks. "Energy workers are working to restore damaged equipment, when it is safe to do so," the company said. Attacks were also reported in Cherkasy, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Rivne, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr oblasts with no confirmed casualties.
In Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, Governor Gleb Nikitin said a large-scale overnight Ukrainian drone attack caused significant damage to an industrial facility. He did not identify the site. The regional government said it was ensuring fuel supply to gas stations and urged motorists to avoid panic buying, Interfax reported. Kyiv did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack.