The key facts

  • At least five people were killed and at least 18 wounded in mutual strikes by Russia and Ukraine
  • In the Belgorod region, a drone destroyed a private house, killing a family of three
  • In the Odesa region, nearly 50,000 people were left without electricity after a strike on an energy grid facility

Casualties on both sides

Mutual strikes by Russia and Ukraine overnight into Saturday and during the day of November 14 killed at least five people, with at least 18 more wounded, officials from both countries reported.

Belgorod region: a family of three killed

According to the regional operational headquarters, a Ukrainian drone strike on the Belgorod region claimed three lives. A drone hit a private house in the settlement of Proletarsky: a married couple and their 24-year-old daughter were killed, and another man was wounded. One house in the settlement was completely destroyed and another damaged. Seven more people were hurt in attacks on the villages of Pochaevo, Novostroyevka-Pervaya and Rzhevka, as well as on the city of Shebekino.

Strikes on Ukrainian territory

Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported the death of a woman in a drone attack in the settlement of Yasnaya Polyana in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region, where three private houses caught fire. In the Sumy region, a morning strike on the city of Hlukhiv wounded three people, said regional administration head Oleh Hryhorov. In the Kharkiv region, seven settlements were attacked over the past day: one person was killed and two wounded. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two people were hurt and apartment buildings damaged.

Massive power outage in the Odesa region

The most large-scale consequence of the strike was a power outage in the Odesa region: after a morning strike on an energy grid facility belonging to the company DTEK in the north of the region, nearly 50,000 people were left without electricity, said Oleh Kiper, head of the regional military administration. According to him, power engineers have already begun restoration work to return electricity to every home as soon as possible.

Statements by the Russian Defense Ministry

Russia's Defense Ministry stated that the overnight strikes hit an energy facility in the Chernihiv region which, according to the ministry, serves Ukrainian defense industry enterprises and logistics centers storing military property, as well as a cargo ship at sea that was delivering military cargo to the port of Odesa. In addition, according to the ministry, near the Matveyevka station in the Zaporizhzhia region, two locomotives used to transport cargo for Ukrainian forces were hit.

The claims cannot be verified

The statements of both sides cannot be independently verified under wartime conditions. At the same time, the nature of the sides' reports differs: Ukrainian officials provide figures on civilian casualties and the scale of power outages, while the Russian military ministry describes strikes exclusively on infrastructure it calls linked to the defense industry and logistics.