Russian overnight missile and drone attack wounds 73 at Kharkiv hospital and hits several Ukrainian cities

Overnight strikes across Ukraine

Russia carried out a large-scale attack on Ukraine during the night of 2 to 3 November 2026, firing ballistic and cruise missiles along with drones, including Shahed-type models. The strikes targeted energy infrastructure, residential buildings and medical facilities in several regions at once. Ukrainian authorities reported attacks in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia, while the Vinnytsia, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions were also targeted. Ukrainian forces said 289 Shahed-type and Gerber drones were used, and Iskander missiles were visible in the sky. In Lviv region, two Russian drones were intercepted and destroyed by air defence with no reported casualties or damage.

Strike on a Kharkiv hospital

A ballistic missile and guided aerial bombs struck a hospital in the Nemyshlianskyi district of Kharkiv, hitting a passage between its buildings. Authorities reported 73 people injured, among them patients, medical staff and residents of nearby homes. Some reports say 226 patients were evacuated to other medical facilities, while others put that figure at 200. Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said more than 1,000 windows were destroyed in the hospital and neighbouring buildings. Regional military administration head Oleg Sinegubow, the mayor and the Prosecutor General's Office said fragments of ammunition had been secured. Preliminary data suggests the bomb may have been a FAB-250 aerial bomb with a UMPK-5R guidance module, whose explosive warhead weighs about 99 kg. Prosecutors in Kharkiv opened a pre-trial investigation into a war crime under the first part of Article 438 of Ukraine's Criminal Code.

Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia

In Dnipro, a thermal power plant in the Samarskyi district was targeted, and other strikes damaged a police station, a residential area and a hospital, with at least 15 people injured according to local authorities. Dnipro mayor Boris Filatov said one projectile hit the palliative care department of the city's hospital. In Zaporizhzhia region, the death toll from the 2 November strike on a humanitarian aid distribution point in Kamyshevakha rose to 30 in the latest figures, up from 26 and then 29 earlier in the night, and 48 people were still being sought. In Zaporizhzhia city, a private house was partly destroyed and a 71-year-old woman was injured, according to the regional military administration.

Power outages

Ukrenergo, the national grid operator, was forced to halt power supplies in the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Outages also hit the Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia and Kyiv regions, and in Vinnytsia most localities lost electricity. Supply there was rotated at one-hour intervals, according to Ukrenergo. In Kharkiv, utilities temporarily cut heating in one part of the city, and the metro warned of possible timetable changes because of unstable power networks.

Warnings and talks

Before the strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the evening of 2 November, citing intelligence, that Russia was preparing a new large-scale attack on Ukraine. Strategic bombers Tu-160 and Tu-95MS had been moved to western Russia on 2 November, and military aviation activity rose significantly. The overnight attack came right after the strike at Kamyshevakha.

Discussions on starting peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are still under way. The window of 10 to 11 November has been mentioned as a possible time for delegations of both countries to meet in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.