Russia hit Ukraine overnight on 6 November with 227 attack drones, and three people were hurt in the Kyiv region, the Ukrainian Air Force said. In the Zaporizhzhia region, meanwhile, the death toll from the Russian air strike on Komyshuvakha on 2 November rose to 50.
The overnight attack
The drones were launched from 18:00 on 5 November. They included Shaheds, 86 of them jet-powered, Gerberas and Parodia decoy drones. Aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare units, unmanned systems and mobile fire groups fought them off.
By 08:00, air defences had shot down or jammed 196 drones, 70 of them jet-powered. Drones fell at 14 places, and debris from downed drones landed at 8 more. About 15 attack drones were still in the air, and air defences kept working.
Russia has been waging a full-scale war on Ukraine since February 2022.
Kyiv region
Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional administration, said a private house and an outbuilding caught fire in the Boryspil district. Both burned down completely.
All three injured people are local residents. Two had acute stress reactions, and a man has a traumatic brain injury and scrapes on his limbs. They were treated at the scene and did not need to go to hospital.
Energy facilities were damaged in the Bila Tserkva and Obukhiv districts. In the Obukhiv district, the blast wave broke the windows of a teaching building and a dormitory belonging to an educational institution.
Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region
Rescuers pulled the bodies of eight more people from the rubble, raising the death toll from the 2 November strike to 50. The State Emergency Service said the search goes on despite harsh conditions and the constant danger of new Russian strikes.
On 2 November, Russian forces carried out a series of air strikes on the village. They also hit a school where aid was handed out every week to residents who had stayed. The death toll had earlier stood at 37, including two rescuers and four police officers.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said most of the victims were civilians who had come for humanitarian aid, along with people who rushed to help them after the first strike.