Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said traffic on the bridge was halted in both directions and that the roadway, a trolleybus overhead line and a power line were damaged. The blast wave damaged five trucks in a parking lot near the bridge.
Two of the five injured in the capital were hospitalized, Klitschko said. In the Solomianskyi district, debris hit residential buildings, damaging a kindergarten and a non-residential building. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said the facade of the first floor of one five-story building was partially destroyed, and blast waves blew out windows in three other buildings.
Russia's Defense Ministry confirmed the strike on the North Bridge, asserting that the span is used for the "transfer of weapons, military and special equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine." The ministry also said the Trypilska thermal power plant and the Kyivska substation in the Kyiv region were attacked, along with a 330 kV substation in the Zhytomyr region that it said "ensures the operation of enterprises of Ukraine's military-industrial complex."
Klitschko said the attacks on energy facilities in the Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions had created an "extremely difficult situation with the energy supply of the capital" and disrupted heating and water supply systems. The Chernihiv city council reported a complete power outage in the city, and electric public transport in Chernihiv was suspended.
In the village of Bohdanivka in the Kyiv region, a drone hit a private house, according to the State Emergency Service. A married couple was trapped under the rubble; the woman got out on her own and rescuers quickly freed her husband. Both were injured, and the man was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds to the head and torso and burns to his face.
Drones also attacked Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region overnight. Regional administration head Oleksandr Han zha said a five-story residential building, an enterprise, cars and outbuildings were damaged. Three people were injured: a 32-year-old man was hospitalized in moderate condition, while a 38-year-old woman and an 11-year-old girl will be treated as outpatients. Infrastructure damage was also recorded in the Dnipro, Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts.
In Kharkiv, a Russian drone hit the roof of a nine-story residential building in the Kyivskyi district, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. He reported no casualties at the time of his statement.
Nine road, rail and pedestrian bridges cross the Dnipro within Kyiv. The North and South bridges are among the main arteries linking the city's left and right banks, and both have previously come under Russian attack.
On Friday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said intelligence indicated that Russia was preparing a new strike on the energy sector, on bridges across the Dnipro and on the country's civilian infrastructure.