Russian attack on Kharkiv hospital injures at least 46, Ukraine says

Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terechow reported on Telegram on 3 November that a Russian attack on a medical facility in Kharkiv had injured at least 46 people. The detonations damaged about 1,000 windows at the hospital building and surrounding houses, and the figures could not be independently verified at first. According to the Kyiv Independent, around 200 patients must be evacuated from the damaged facility. Terechow had warned overnight that Russia was attacking the city with ballistic missiles and glide bombs. Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city after Kyiv, lies near the Russian border and the front line.

Separately, Russia's Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 493 Ukrainian drones were heading toward the capital by morning, and Russia said it had repelled nearly 500 Ukrainian drones overnight. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X that world attention would focus on the US congressional elections, and that Ukraine's difficulties with air defence and Patriot missiles would go unnoticed. Zelenskyy also told the US broadcaster PBS that Ukraine only responds to Russian attacks, describing the hacking of Russia's air raid warning system as a cyberattack that Ukraine had countered in kind.