Updated at 14:24
Russia attacked Ukraine with 132 attack drones overnight into Sunday, 15 November, the Ukrainian Air Force said. Of these, 78 were jet-powered Shaheds. Ukrainian air defences shot down or jammed 106 drones, but there were hits in 20 places. Zaporizhzhia was hit hardest, with six people wounded, including a 2-year-old boy. Civilians were also wounded in Chornomorsk in the Odesa region, and in Kharkiv a drone hit a fire engine.
Zaporizhzhia
Russian aircraft struck the regional centre late on 14 November. Six people were wounded, including a 2-year-old boy, and the State Emergency Service said the number was still being checked. All are getting medical care.
Rescuers pulled a man out of one of the apartments. Two private houses and garages were damaged, as well as the glass in high-rise residential buildings. Ten cars burned and another ten were damaged.
Chornomorsk, Odesa region
The overnight attack also hit Chornomorsk. Civilians were wounded, energy facilities were damaged and a four-storey administrative building was heavily damaged.
Rescuers said two parked cars caught fire. The blast wave and debris damaged a gas pipe, and the facades and windows of nearby apartment blocks. A wounded man was trapped in one of the apartments.
Kharkiv and Chuhuiv
In Kharkiv, Russian forces hit the site of an earlier strike in the Kyivskyi district for a second time. As a fire crew arrived, an FPV drone flew at them and damaged the fire engine.
No one was hurt, because the rescuers were under cover when the drone struck. In Chuhuiv, a drone hit a private business. The fire has been put out, and no one was killed or wounded.
The attack overall
Besides Shaheds, Russia launched Gerbera drones and Parodiya decoy drones. They came from the direction of Bryansk, Oryol, Kursk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, occupied Donetsk and Crimea. Most enemy drones were logged heading toward the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions.
In this week alone, Russia has fired more than 2,300 attack drones, 1,590 guided aerial bombs and 15 missiles of various types, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Energy sites remain the main target, and Russia hits substations with Shaheds.
Many of these strikes get through because of speed limits on Starshield terminals along the front line and in occupied territories. "Our interceptor drones lose contact with their operators at a speed of 161 kilometres an hour and simply can't catch up with the Russian jet-powered Shaheds," Zelensky added. The Starshield problems began in October and were later fixed, but this week Ukrainian drones are again losing contact above 160 km/h. The president hopes the limits will be lifted, because the protection of people and of the energy system before winter depends on it. The foreign and defence ministries and the presidential office have been told to work as closely as possible with the US side and SpaceX. Russia has been waging a full-scale war against Ukraine since February 2022.