Three drones hit critical facility in Kyiv, part of the capital left without water

On the evening of 30 October, three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hit one of the critical infrastructure facilities in Kyiv, causing problems with the water supply in the capital. This was stated by Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

According to a later statement by Klitschko, water supply has been restored in the Obolonskyi district. In the Sviatoshynskyi, Podilskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts, water pressure is currently low.

Klitschko added that there is no water on the capital's left bank, as well as in the Pecherskyi, Solomianskyi and Holosiivskyi districts. According to him, emergency work is continuing.

That evening, an air-raid alert was declared twice in Kyiv due to the drone threat. After explosions heard during the first alert, electricity was cut off in some districts of the city. Klitschko said at the time that a critical infrastructure facility had been hit and that emergency services were heading to the scene.

According to the Ukrainian side, explosions were also heard in the city of Dnipro that night. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a jet-powered "Shahed" drone hit the city's Osnovianskyi district and that a fire broke out at the site of the strike.

The strikes took place on the day the Kremlin announced that trilateral talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine would resume in Abu Dhabi in November. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that day that preparations for the trilateral talks do not imply a commitment to halt combat operations.