After the Russian air strike on a clinic in Kharkiv, the number of injured rose to 73 on Tuesday morning. 226 patients are to be transferred to other hospitals. That is reported by the prosecutor's office of the Kharkiv region, as the BBC reports. Previously, the head of the regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, had spoken on Tuesday morning of at least 62 injured as of 6.15 a.m. local time, as the Berliner Zeitung reports.
According to the prosecutor’s office, among the 73 affected were patients of the clinic, medical staff and residents of neighbouring houses. Most had been diagnosed with an acute stress reaction. According to preliminary information, 226 people are to be transferred to other hospitals. The BBC relies on the authorities, the Berliner Zeitung on Syniehubov.
A glide bomb hit the connecting corridor
According to the prosecutor’s office, the attack on Kharkiv occurred at around 03.20 on Tuesday, 3 November. An aerial bomb struck a connecting corridor between two clinic buildings in the Nemyshlianskyi district of the city. Windows were torn out in the buildings, the facade and departments were damaged. According to the investigators’ assessment, it could have been a FAB-250 with the UMPK-5R guidance module; the debris was secured. The prosecutor’s office has opened a preliminary investigation into a war crime.
According to the prosecutor’s office, another medical facility, a laboratory, the windows of ten apartment buildings and 13 cars were also damaged. Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov stated that the blast wave destroyed more than 1,000 window panes at the clinic and in the surrounding area. The Berliner Zeitung, citing the regional military administration, names at least four damaged residential buildings, while the prosecutor’s office speaks of ten damaged apartment buildings. Because of damaged municipal utility facilities, the heating and hot water supply was partially cut off; in metro operations, deviations from the timetable are possible because of unstable grid voltage.
Attacks on energy facilities in several regions
The attack on Kharkiv was part of a massive Russian strike in the night to Tuesday. According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia deployed Iskander-M/KN-23 and Zircon missiles, 59 cruise missiles of the Kh-101, Kh-59, Kh-69 and Iskander-K types as well as 289 drones, including 120 with jet propulsion. By 9 a.m., according to this, 309 aerial targets had been shot down or jammed: three ballistic missiles, 49 cruise missiles and 257 drones. Hits were registered at 23 locations, debris fell at 14 places. The air force warned that the attack was continuing and that several drones were still in Ukrainian airspace.
According to the air force, the main targets were the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia and Dnipropetrovsk regions. In Dnipro, according to the head of the region’s military administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, a combined heat and power plant, a residential area, a police station and a hospital were hit. One person died, 17 were injured. Rescue workers were trying to recover the body from the debris; the search was being made more difficult by the continuing danger of further hits, Hanzha said. In the Zhytomyr region, according to the authorities, more than 180,000 households in around 130 settlements were without electricity, as BR.de reports. In the Odesa region, an attack on a facility of the energy supplier DTEK led to emergency shutdowns. In the Vinnytsia region, energy facilities were damaged, there was temporarily no water, local transport was diverted, and the energy suppliers introduced hourly shutdowns. There was also damage in the Khmelnytskyi region and near Chernivtsi.
Zelensky warns of a new strike during the US elections
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of another heavy Russian attack during the congressional elections in the USA this Tuesday. According to Ukrainian intelligence findings, Moscow is planning, among other things, attacks on the country’s energy supply and logistics targets. On the platform X, Zelensky wrote that the world’s attention would be focused on the US elections, “and what is happening in Ukraine, including our difficulties with air defence and with Patriot missiles, will not be noticed”.
Russia, for its part, reported the repulsion of 493 Ukrainian drones in the direction of Moscow, as mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced on Telegram. Most had been shot down far from the capital, 187 only on approach. According to the governor of the Yaroslavl region, Mikhail Yevrayev, an oil refinery was damaged, two employees were injured and a fire broke out. The Russian Ministry of Defence stated, according to the news agency Interfax, that energy facilities in the Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions as well as ports in the Odesa region had been attacked.
Meanwhile, US special envoy Steve Witkoff announced new negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. The delegations are to meet in Abu Dhabi on 10 and 11 November and talk at working level about security guarantees after the war, de-escalation and humanitarian aid. Talks between US negotiators and representatives of France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the EU and Nato in Brussels have also been announced for this week.
Earlier coverage: Kharkiv clinic hit: at least 25 injured in Russian strike
