Russia strikes Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight: people killed and injured, including children, some regions without power
The National Police of Ukraine, the State Emergency Service (SES), and regional military administrations reported civilian casualties. Russians also caused damage, including to energy and railway infrastructure, across the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Lviv, and Mykolaiv regions following Russian shelling on the night of October 30, 2025.
Damage from the Russian strike on the night of October 30, 2025, in the Kyiv Oblast.The Kyiv region was under attack overnight, resulting in damage and a 36-year-old woman wounded. She was hospitalized with thermal burns to her face and palms, as well as lacerations to her forearm and lower legs.
In Zaporizhzhia, which was hit by a combined Russian strike that included missiles, 17 people were wounded, including children of various ages. Russians killed two people in this attack. Later, Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, released a video showing the body of the second fatality being recovered from under the rubble.
Rescuers assisted nearly 30 civilians at the scene, but work is still ongoing, and the number of wounded may increase.
Clearing the rubble at the site of the Russian strike in ZaporizhzhiaMoreover, Russians also struck Dnipro overnight, but there were no casualties or injuries there.
Russia also hit the Lviv Oblast overnight, striking the Dobrotvir Thermal Power Plant (TPP); however, no civilian casualties or injuries were reported from that location either.
Energy workers and railway officials reported that they have altered train routes and implemented power outages in several regions.
Ukrainian Air Force Command reported that Russians launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine with 653 loitering munitions of various types and 52 missiles, including nine ballistic ones, this night. Ukrainian defense forces destroyed or jammed 623 aerial assets.
Russian forces launched Shaheds, Gerberas, and drones of other types from Kursk, Millerovo, Oryol, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russia), and Cape Chauda in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
The Russians also deployed the following aerial assets:
- Four Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles (from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia);
- Five Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles (from Rostov Oblast, Russia);
- Eight Kalibr cruise missiles;
- Two Iskander-K cruise missiles (from Kursk and Voronezh Oblasts, Russia);
- 30 Kh-101 cruise missiles (from Saratov Oblast, Russia);
- Two Kh-59/69 air-to-surface missiles (from the Black Sea area);
- One Kh-31P anti-radar missile (from the Black Sea area).
As of now, Ukraine has identified direct hits from 16 missiles and 63 drones at 20 locations, while debris from downed devices fell in 19 locations across various Ukrainian oblasts.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reminded international partners of the need for new pressure measures on Russia’s oil, gas, and financial sectors as well as for secondary sanctions against those who bankroll the war.
This year, Russia plans to cause large-scale blackouts ahead of the heating season and halt the railway, which is why Russian forces are deliberately striking energy infrastructure and Ukrzaliznytsia’s assets.
Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in South Korea, where they discussed various economic issues and cooperation between the two countries in resolving Russia’s war against the Ukrainian People.
According to Trump, the U.S. and China will “work together” on the war in Ukraine, but Taiwan never came up in the two leaders’ discussions.
“Ukraine – we’re both going to work together — we agree that the sides are locked in fighting, and sometimes you gotta let them fight, I guess. But we’re going to work together on Ukraine,” he stated, speaking to journalists on board Air Force One on October 30.
When asked whether he discussed with Xi Jinping the issue of buying Russian oil, Trump responded in the negative.
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Ukrainian experts point out that China, North Korea, Hungary, Iran, and Brazil assist Moscow in killing citizens of Ukraine in Russia’s war, including funding the Russian budget through trade.
Newly appointed Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Andriy Melnyk stated in an interview with Suspilne broadcaster that Brazil paid Russia almost $10 billion for 6.5 million tons of diesel.
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