The key facts
- Russian Defense Ministry: a strike with high-precision weapons and drones against three categories of facilities supporting the Ukrainian Armed Forces
- Kyiv City Military Administration: two people injured, two five-story buildings and a kindergarten damaged
- The strike continued a series of attacks on the region's energy sector: on November 6, a battery energy storage park in Bila Tserkva was reported hit
Declared targets and data from the Ukrainian authorities
Russia's Ministry of Defense reported that on the night of November 7 it carried out a massive strike with high-precision ground-based weapons and long-range attack drones against facilities of the military-industrial complex, energy sector and transport infrastructure in Kyiv and Kyiv region. According to the ministry, all three categories of facilities supported the Armed Forces of Ukraine (reports Life.ru).
Consequences in the city
Ukrainian authorities had earlier reported the overnight attack as well. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said there were explosions in the city and its suburbs. According to the Kyiv City Military Administration, two people were injured in the Solomianskyi district, two five-story residential buildings and a kindergarten building were damaged; a fire in a non-residential building was also reported. Reports of explosions came in throughout the night, and monitoring resources warned of a missile threat.
Connection to the series of strikes on the energy sector
The overnight strike continued a series of attacks on the energy infrastructure of the capital region. The day before, on November 6, Life.ru reported that Russian drones had hit a battery energy storage park in Bila Tserkva; the Ukrainian authorities confirmed damage in the Bila Tserkva and Obukhiv districts the same day, and Ukraine's Ministry of Energy reported power outages in seven regions, with the most difficult situation remaining in Kyiv region. According to military bloggers citing Ukrainian monitoring resources, one of the possible targets of the strike on the night of November 7 was the Trypilska thermal power plant, and there were also reports of eight RM-48U ballistic missiles and damage to a substation in the Brovary district. For the week from October 31 to November 6, the Ministry of Defense reported one massive strike and 11 group strikes, with the declared targets including military industry enterprises, logistics centers, energy and transport infrastructure facilities, and sites for the production and storage of drones and cruise missiles.
What remains unclear
Information about the specific targets hit in the overnight strike (including the Trypilska thermal power plant and the substation in the Brovary district) is based on military bloggers and Ukrainian monitoring resources and has not been officially confirmed; Russia's Ministry of Defense did not specify the targets in its statement. The extent of the damage to the region's power grid after the strike on the night of November 7 remained unknown at the time of publication.
