The aftermath of a Russian airstrike on an apartment block in Dnipro, in eastern Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, 8 November 2025. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
The Russian military carried out combined drone and missile strikes against Ukraine in the early hours of Saturday, leaving at least two people dead, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
A drone strike on a nine-storey residential building in Dnipro, the capital of Ukraine’s eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, killed two women and injured a further 12, according to Governor Vladyslav Haivanenko.
Homes on several floors were badly damaged in the attack and a major fire broke out, which was subsequently extinguished by firefighters. Some 28 people, including 5 children, were rescued from the building by the emergency services.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, eight people were hospitalised in the country’s eastern Kharkiv region after being injured in Russian airstrikes. Energy infrastructure in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa was also damaged in Russian drone strikes overnight.
The capital Kyiv and central Ukraine’s Poltava region were also both targeted by Russian drones, with residents of Poltava’s Horishni Plavni having their electricity and water supplies cut and power supplies to nearby Kremenchuck also being disrupted, according to Ukrainian media outlets.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine also launched airstrikes on targets in Russia overnight, injuring two people in the southern Saratov region, according to Governor Roman Busargin, and leaving several villages in the southern Volgograd region without power, according to regional Governor Andrey Bocharov.
