The death toll from the Russian strikes on the Odesa region and the Kyiv region has risen to at least four. BBC News Ukraine reported this on Monday, 9 November. In Kharkiv, a two-year-old boy was injured so severely in a drone attack on an apartment block that he was taken to intensive care.
During the day, the Kyiv region had again come under fire. According to the head of the regional military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, an 82-year-old woman died in the Vyshhorod district; she was on the second floor of her own house at the moment of impact. Two other people were injured. Russian drones also attacked the city of Kyiv; according to BBC News Ukraine, debris from a Shahed-type drone fell near a school.
In Odesa, according to the head of the regional administration, Oleh Kiper, a logistics company, a food warehouse, was hit for the third time in the morning. Three people died – two women and a man. Three others were injured, and one woman is in hospital in a serious condition.
In Kharkiv, the head of the regional administration, Oleh Syniehubov, wrote that the two-year-old had been injured and was being treated in intensive care, and that doctors were providing the necessary help. Later he reported that two other women had sought medical treatment.
In the evening, the power supply was hit again: according to the energy supplier DTEK, a Russian attack in the Dnipropetrovsk region damaged “important energy equipment”. As a result, power went out in large parts of Dnipro and Kamianske, and facilities of critical infrastructure were also affected.
In total, according to Deputy Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov, energy facilities in twelve regions were damaged within a day. The situation was most difficult in the Dnipropetrovsk region and the Kyiv region. According to the report, there were also power outages in the Vinnytsia, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Chernihiv regions. In most regions, schedules for hourly shutdowns apply, and capacity limits apply to industry. Nekrasov said that because of the uninterrupted attacks, the situation with the power supply could change quickly within a day, sometimes even several times an hour.
In the evening, the state energy company Centrenergo reported another attack on the Trypilska thermal power plant in the Kyiv region. The consequences could be very serious, it said. Since the end of September, Russian troops had not only increased the intensity of the shelling of the plant but also changed tactics: they could use ballistic missiles and drones simultaneously against one facility. The damage was considerable, but the extent of the destruction could not yet be fully assessed.
During the night to Monday, according to the administrations, Russian drones also attacked the Khmelnytskyi, Rivne and Volyn regions. In Khmelnytskyi, several private houses were damaged; according to the state emergency service DSNS, there was no information about dead or injured.
Earlier coverage: Russian strikes kill two and cut power to 600,000 in Ukraine
