Editor’s note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Read the lastest news on Russia’s overnight Nov. 8 attacks, including its drone strike on a residential building in Dnipro.
Russia launched yet another wide-ranging attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Nov. 8, using a combination of drones and missiles to strike targets across the country.
In Kyiv, explosions were heard just before 4:30 a.m. local time, according to a Kyiv Independent journalist on the ground. Officials reported that air defenses were activated in the city amid a wider Russian drone attack on the capital.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko later [reported](https://t.me/tkachenkotymur/1988) that a fire has been reported in the Pecherskyi district amid falling drone debris stemming from the attack. Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko also reported that several vehicles had caught fire in the district.
No information was provided on the scale of the fires nor on any damage or casualties caused.
The attack on the capital comes amid a wider attack on cities closer to Ukraine’s front line regions.
Air raid alerts throughout the night warned of Russian ballistic missile attacks, targeting Ukraine’s central and eastern regions.
Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk said that the “massive” combined missile and drone attack targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, resulting in emergency power outages being implemented in several regions.
Hrynchuk said that the consequences of the attacks are being determined and outages will be restored “once the situation in the energy system stabilizes.”
Throughout the fall, Russia has continued to intensify attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure as it attempts to plunge the country into yet another harsh winter. The worst strikes on Oct. 3 and 5 wiped out around 60% of Ukraine’s gas production sites.
Earlier in the night, Russia also carried out a drone attack on a residential building in the city of Dnipro, injuring at least seven people, including two children, officials reported.
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