Russia launched 433 attack drones at Ukraine overnight into 1 November, the Ukrainian air force said. The attack began at 18:00 on 31 October. The drones include Shaheds (64 of them jet-powered), Gerberas and Parodiya decoys. The Russians sent them from several directions: Oryol, Kursk, Shatalovo, Bryansk and Millerovo, as well as occupied Donetsk.
By 07:30, air defences had shot down or jammed 371 drones, 47 of them jet-powered. More than 40 attack drones were still in the air, and air defence crews were still working. Drones hit 16 locations, and debris from downed drones fell on 14 others. Russia has waged a full-scale war on Ukraine since February 2022.
Why most of the drones ran on petrol
This time the Russians mostly sent ordinary petrol-engined Shaheds rather than jet-powered ones. Sergey Beskrestnov (Flash), the president's adviser on defence technology, blamed the weather. "There is thick cloud over Ukraine, so today the enemy is launching dozens of ordinary petrol Shaheds, hoping our interceptor crews will struggle to spot them," he wrote.
Kyiv
In the capital, a drone set a car park on fire next to one of the markets in the Desnyansky district. Firefighters put out the blaze, which covered about 20 square metres.
In the Darnytsky district, another drone came down in the open, in the yard of a private house. No one was killed or injured in Kyiv.
Vinnytsia
Svitlana Zabolotna, head of the Vinnytsia regional administration, said the region came under another mass attack overnight. The Russian drones targeted energy infrastructure.
A mobile phone tower and a private warehouse were damaged. Windows were broken in several multi-storey blocks in Vinnytsia.
Kramatorsk
A Russian air strike destroyed the city council building on Mir Square in central Kramatorsk. Oleksandr Goncharenko, head of the city military administration, recalled that the building had survived the attacks by pro-Russian fighters in 2014 and the city's liberation afterwards.
"You can destroy a building, burn our land and steal our memories. But you cannot take away our right to a future," Goncharenko wrote. The reports do not mention any casualties in Kramatorsk.
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