A Russian overnight attack damaged Kyiv’s North Bridge, closing it to traffic in both directions and dropping the city’s water pressure. Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed the closure on November 7, noting that damage to an energy facility in Zhytomyr worsened the capital’s power supply situation. The road surface, trolleybus contact line, and a power line on the bridge were all hit. At least six people were injured in the capital, including a 14-year-old girl, with two taken to hospital. One more person was injured in the surrounding Kyiv region. Debris from downed targets fell on a five-storey building in the Solomianskyi district, injuring two people there. A kindergarten was also damaged, and a non-residential building caught fire according to the city military administration.
Grid Damage and Regional Outages
Chernihiv was left entirely without electricity after the same overnight attack, and the city council suspended electric public transport. A missile hit an energy facility in Makariv, according to the community head. Kyivvodokanal switched to generators where possible to maintain water flow. Vitalii Bunechko, head of the Zhytomyr regional military administration, said repair crews were assessing the damage to equipment. This is the second winter in which Russia has aimed at the grid to make cities unlivable. Power engineers imposed grid restrictions in the capital region, where the situation was described as the most difficult in the country. Ukrenergo introduced emergency outages of five queues in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, and Cherkasy regions to prevent a voltage drop. Ground electric transport in Kyiv has not run since November 3. Voltage problems have caused temporary halts on the metro, experts told Energoreforma. Two Kyiv City Express trains were stopped and one delayed because the contact network lost voltage.
The Air Force reported that Russia fired Iskander-M, Zircon, KN-23, and S-400 missiles along with 172 Shahed-type drones at Ukraine from 18:00 on November 6. Four missiles and 149 drones had been shot down or suppressed by 09:00 Kyiv time. Hits occurred at 24 locations, with debris at 10 others. Zelenskiy warned on the evening of November 6 that intelligence showed Russia was preparing a new strike on the energy system and on the bridges across the Dnipro. He asked again for Patriot interceptors, which Ukraine is running short of. In central Kyiv, the schedule allowed two hours of electricity from 07:00 and none for the rest of the waking day. Water was available for about half of the previous 72 hours, Italian journalist Davide Maria De Luca reported from the city on November 6.
Drone Strikes and Economic Impact
Russia’s defence ministry claimed air defences destroyed 411 Ukrainian drones overnight over 10 Russian regions, Crimea, and the Azov and Black Seas. Production premises of an enterprise in Oryol were partly damaged in what Governor Andrei Klychkov called a "massive missile attack". Monitoring channels named the Proton plant, which makes electronic components for Iskander-M ballistic missiles, as the target. No Ukrainian official confirmed the use of Flamingo missiles against Oryol at the time of writing. In Saratov region, drones hit Rosneft’s refinery at about 03:24 on November 7 and set it on fire, monitoring channel Exilenova Plus said. Governor Roman Busargin said civilian infrastructure was damaged and there were casualties, without giving a number or naming the refinery. Flights at Saratov’s Gagarin airport were temporarily restricted.
Ukrainian strikes hit Russian ammunition storage points near Melitopol and Khliborobne, a drone control point near Chasiv Yar, and a fuel depot near Luhanske. The General Staff made these claims, but they were not independently verified. A resident was injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in occupied Horlivka, and a business’s infrastructure was damaged, Russian-installed city head Ivan Prikhodko said. The National Bank of Ukraine noted that Russian attacks damaged warehouses 153 times in July-September, destroying about 800,000 square meters of storage space. Rents for quality warehouse space have risen 12-13% in a few months on market estimates. The attacks and the port blockade will cut real GDP growth by 1.9 percentage points this year and add about 0.7 points to inflation, the central bank said.
