On the night of November 8, 2025, Russian forces launched a massive attack on a number of Ukrainian cities, using Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, Kalibr cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and drones. The strikes killed at least two people, wounded dozens, and destroyed residential buildings and energy infrastructure facilities
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
Ukraine's air force said Russia had sent 405 drones and 28 missiles, 15 of which were ballistic
Killed and wounded civilians and damaged infrastructure were reported across the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, and Poltava regions following Russian shelling on the night of October 10, 2025. The strikes caused power cuts across several of these regions
On the night of October 4, 2025, Russian drones shelled the Chernechchyna hromada – a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements – in the Sumy region, hitting a grain storage facility in what reports indicated was a deliberate strike
The investigation into war crimes committed by Russian military personnel in Bucha and the Bucha District of the Kyiv region is also ongoing. Investigators continue to document these crimes with international partners
Russian shelling on the night of October 2, 2025, killed and wounded civilians in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Chernihiv regions and destroyed railway infrastructure
The New Safe Confinement, which covers the destroyed fourth reactor, was left without power. The structure is critical to preventing the release of radioactive materials
A "massive attack" by Russia against Ukraine's capital killed at least four people, including a 12-year-old girl, and injured at least 27 others at night and in the morning on September 28, 2025
During the night, the Russian army launched more than 140 drones at Ukraine, most of which were shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force. The military reported that the drones hit seven locations
Russia launched 309 drones and eight cruise missiles during the night, according to Ukraine's air force. And although officials say air defences did manage to destroy many of them, there were numerous hits, including from cruise missiles
In the latest barrage, 352 Russian drones and 16 missiles targeted Ukrainian territory, mostly in the Kyiv area, the Ukrainian air force reported
The head of Kyiv's military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said that the attacks on various districts happened "simultaneously"
The documentary film "No God But Theirs", created by The Kyiv Independent, took place in Kyiv, which highlights the oppression of priests in occupied Melitopol
Russian armed forces attacked thirteen Ukrainian regions: the capital, the Kyiv Oblast, the Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyy, Ternopil, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Sumy, and Poltava Oblasts
It was one of the biggest combined aerial assaults on the city since the onset of full-scale war of Russians against Ukrainian people
The President of Ukraine reported that since the evening, there have been numerous strikes on Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Kherson Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. He also revealed that in the village of Velyka Chernechchyna, Sumy Oblast
The organaizers of the peaceful assembly called on Ukrainians to attend the rallies every Sunday with flags, posters, and photographs of prisoners or simply to be present and collectively say, "We do not forget"
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