Zelensky: Russia struck Kyiv and the region with 36 ballistic missiles overnight, the energy system was the main target
According to the Ukrainian side, 172 strike drones were launched alongside the missiles, 12 regions besides Kyiv came under attack, and nine people, including a child, were injured.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that overnight into 7 November Russia attacked Kyiv and the Kyiv region with 36 ballistic missiles. According to him, the main target of the strike was the energy system.
According to Zelensky, in the Kyiv region Russian troops shelled substations connecting the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plants with the capital and Ukraine's central regions. Substations were also damaged in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Besides Kyiv, 12 regions came under attack, and nine people, including a child, were injured.
Ukraine's Air Force said that overnight Russian troops launched Iskander-M, Zircon, KN-23 and S-400 missiles, as well as 172 strike drones, at Ukraine. Air defences neutralised four missiles and 149 unmanned aerial vehicles. Missile and drone hits were recorded at 24 locations, and debris fell in ten places.
Zelensky said Russia was trying to plunge Ukraine into darkness and called for increased support from the United States.
During the night Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Russia had struck infrastructure facilities. The Kyiv City Military Administration said a kindergarten building in the Solomianskyi district had been damaged and a fire had broken out in a non-residential building. According to the Ukrainian side, the attack left Chernihiv completely without electricity, and about 150,000 customers in the Chernihiv region and Slavutych were without power.
Russia's Defence Ministry, for its part, said that overnight the Northern road bridge in Kyiv, the Meridian enterprise producing Flamingo missiles, and the Trypilska thermal power plant in the Kyiv region were hit.
The attack came after Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States would be held in Abu Dhabi on 10 November. The Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plants are operating nuclear plants located in western Ukraine.
