Hanzha said the outages affected the city of Dnipro and five districts: Dniprovskyi, Kamianskyi, Samarovskyi, Pavlohradskyi and Synelnykivskyi. Hospitals and critical infrastructure facilities were switched to generators, with power promised to be restored to them first.
Overnight, Ukraine was attacked by 164 drones and three missiles, Radio Liberty reported.
In the Zhytomyr region, Russian strikes completely destroyed a substation in Ovruch, the city's mayor said. He warned residents of a prolonged loss of electricity, saying restoration would take "considerable time." After supply resumes, the mayor urged residents to observe blackout precautions in the evening and at night.
In the Kharkiv region, a drone struck a critical infrastructure facility, the mayor of Zlatopil said. About 250,000 subscribers were left without electricity. Energy workers are already repairing the damage; the exact time of restoration is unknown.
In the Kamianets-Podilskyi district of the Khmelnytskyi region, an emergency power outage occurred after shelling on November 7, the head of the regional administration said. Hourly outage schedules are in effect in the region. In Khmelnytskyi, Russian drone strikes overnight into November 8 damaged private residential houses and blew out windows in multi-storey buildings. According to preliminary information, one person was injured and did not require hospitalization.
Ukrenergo announced consumption restrictions in some regions without listing them. Hourly outages are envisaged for the population and capacity limits for industry. When emergency outages are introduced, previously published schedules do not apply. DTEK showed a substation destroyed by shelling without disclosing its location. The company called the situation "extremely difficult."
Volodymyr Zelensky said on November 7 that Russia had attacked substations in the Kyiv region connecting the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plants with Kyiv and the country's central regions. Russia's Defense Ministry reported strikes on the Trypilska thermal power plant and the "Kyivska" substation.