Russian Defence Ministry: 709 Ukrainian drones shot down over Russian regions overnight

Russia's Defence Ministry said on 4 November that air defence systems shot down 709 Ukrainian drones over various regions of Russia overnight.

Ukraine's Air Force, for its part, said Russia launched 310 strike drones at Ukraine that night, of which air defences neutralised 272. According to the Ukrainian side, drone hits were recorded at 19 locations and debris fell at 15 sites.

The Kyiv City State Administration said in the morning that water supply in the capital had been partially restored. According to the statement, specialists are working to raise pressure in the network to return water to residents of all districts of the capital, and from 08:00 water pump rooms in districts still without supply will be connected to generators.

On the night of 2 to 3 November, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 187 drones approaching Moscow had been neutralised. The governor of Yaroslavl said an attack by 124 Ukrainian drones on an oil refinery had been repelled and that the refinery had been damaged.

On 2 November, Kazakhstan's Energy Ministry said oil transport via the Atyrau–Samara pipeline had been temporarily suspended after a drone attack on facilities of Russia's Samara production and dispatch hub.

On 3 November, after a Russian attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, the city of Zhytomyr was left completely without power, and tram and trolleybus services in Kyiv were halted due to a critical situation in the energy system. Ukraine's Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said Russia had directed three drones at a substation critical to the operation of the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant.