The Russian Defense Ministry said overnight Oct. 30-31 Russian forces used
drones to strike Ukrainian energy and logistics infrastructure and vessels
supporting Ukrainian troops. Moscow named targets including a Kyiv combined
heat-and-power plant that supplied a Ukrainian logistics facility and equipment
storage, a weapons-component workshop and a drone warehouse in Kharkiv, and a
cargo ship south of Odesa transporting materiel. The ministry said Russian air
defenses intercepted and shot down 433 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones across
multiple regions, including Belgorod and Samara, between 20:00 on Oct. 30 and
08:00 on Oct. 31. President Zelenskiy said Russian drone strikes damaged a CHP
in Kyiv, four substations and a gas-distribution facility in Dnipropetrovsk
Oblast, and a CHP in Shostka, Sumy Oblast, and hit rail infrastructure in Dnipro
and Kharkiv; he said about 200,000 households in Dnipro and surrounding areas
and more than 80,000 in Kyiv region lost power. The Ukrainian Air Force said
Russia launched 134 drones overnight and, as of 08:30, Ukrainian air defenses
had destroyed 105 of them.
