The overnight attack involved Shahed and Gerbera strike drones, Parodiya decoy drones and 64 jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukraine's Air Force said, according to Radio Liberty. By 07:30, air defenses had shot down or suppressed 371 drones, with hits recorded at 16 locations and debris from downed drones falling at 14 more, the military said in preliminary figures.
Zelensky said in a Telegram post that energy facilities were struck in the Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi regions. Substations, transformers and power lines supplying residential buildings were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of families remain without electricity, he said.
Over the past week Russia fired 1,940 strike drones, more than 1,580 guided aerial bombs and 44 missiles of various types at Ukraine, 36 of them ballistic, according to Zelensky. He described the intensity of the strikes as very high and said Russia is trying to make maximum use of Ukraine's shortage of means to intercept ballistic missiles.
In the Sumy region, six people were injured in a series of Russian strikes, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported. A civilian infrastructure facility, vehicles and a non-residential building were hit in the Sumy and Konotop communities, and a Russian drone attacked a residential area in the Hlukhiv community overnight.
While rescuers were putting out a fire that broke out, Russian forces struck the same location a second time. Personnel were not hurt, all fires were extinguished and the areas were surveyed, the service said.
In the Rivne region, four people were injured in a Russian strike on a private residential area, Deutsche Welle reported. According to the State Emergency Service, the attack set a house on fire in the Ostroh district.
Emergency power cuts were introduced in Kyiv on the morning of 1 November. The DTEK energy company said the restrictions were caused by Russian strikes on the power system, with engineers restoring damaged equipment when the security situation allows. On Saturday, 31 October, some districts of Kyiv received electricity for only two hours a day.
Energy facilities were damaged in the Kyiv region, and a woman was injured and hospitalized in the Obukhiv district. More than 650 settlements were left without power in the Zhytomyr region.
In the Vinnytsia region, energy infrastructure was attacked: a mobile communications tower, a private warehouse building, windows in apartment blocks, public transport stops and cars in Vinnytsia were damaged.
Nearly 100,000 consumers lost electricity in the Dnipro, Pavlohrad and Samar districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional military administration. Engineers had almost fully restored supply after earlier strikes, but the new attacks caused repeated outages. More than 70 emergency crews are working to deal with the aftermath, and water supply in Dnipro has been fully restored.
On 31 October Russian forces also attacked coal-mining enterprises of the DTEK Energy company in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Technological structures were damaged and three employees were injured with varying degrees of severity.
A Russian strike destroyed the city administration building in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, said Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the Kramatorsk city military administration. "You can destroy a building, scorch the earth and steal memories, but you will not succeed in depriving Ukrainians of the right to a future," he wrote.
Russia's Defense Ministry said in its morning briefing that it had struck Ukrainian energy and transport infrastructure overnight that it claims was used by the Ukrainian armed forces. The military also reported strikes on drone assembly and storage sites, ammunition depots and Ukrainian military positions in 139 districts. In addition, the ministry said it struck the Konotop railway station in the Sumy region and a dry cargo ship southwest of Odesa that it claims was carrying cargo for the Ukrainian military.