Updated at 10:23
Russia hit Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, 3 November, with 289 drones and dozens of missiles. Kharkiv had the most injured, with 73 hurt when a hospital was hit, followed by Dnipro with 15. A day earlier, Russian strikes on Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia region killed 29 people, and another 48 are listed as missing.
Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region
On Monday, 2 November, Russian aircraft struck the village of Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia district several times. One strike hit a school where aid was handed out every week to residents who had stayed in the village.
Mykhailo Semykin, acting head of the regional military administration, put the latest death toll at 29. On the evening of 2 November, when 26 were reported dead, the victims included two rescuers and four police officers. Five people were wounded at that point, two of them State Emergency Service (DSNS) workers.
The dead include rescuers Denys Konovalenko and Oleksiy Sushchevsky, both 44. Konovalenko had served in civil protection for nearly 12 years. Sushchevsky joined the rescuers in 2013 and had worked in fire stations in Zaporizhzhia for more than 13 years. President Volodymyr Zelensky said most of the victims were civilians who had come for humanitarian aid.
Kharkiv
At about 3:20am, a Russian aerial bomb hit the Nemyshlyanskyi district of Kharkiv, striking the passage between hospital buildings. The latest figures put the injured at 73 — patients, medical staff and residents of nearby apartment blocks. At first the number was 62.
The Prosecutor General's Office says early findings point to a FAB-250 aerial bomb fitted with a UMPK-5R guidance kit. Investigators have collected fragments of the munition.
The blast damaged the hospital's facade and one of its wards, as well as another medical facility, a laboratory and the windows of 10 apartment blocks. Ten cars were also damaged. In all, 226 patients are being moved to other hospitals.
Dnipro
Russian strikes also hit Dnipro on the morning of 3 November. The latest figures put the injured at 15, including three men in a serious condition. At first, five people were reported hurt.
Buildings were damaged. The constant threat of new strikes is making rescue work harder.
What Russia used
The main strikes were on Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Russia fired Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, Zircon anti-ship missiles and 59 cruise missiles — Kh-101, Kh-59, Kh-69 and Iskander-K. The 289 drones were Shaheds, 120 of them jet-powered, along with Gerbera drones and Parodiya decoys.
By 9am, air defences had shot down or jammed 309 targets: 3 Iskander-M/KN-23 and Zircon ballistic missiles, 49 cruise missiles (data on 3 more is being checked) and 257 drones, 89 of them jet-powered, Gerbera and other types. Missiles and strike drones hit 23 locations, and debris from downed targets fell on 14 more.
Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.