Russian strikes hit Ukraine's energy grid, Dnipro and Kharkiv as Selenskyj heads to Berlin

Russia targeted Ukraine's critical infrastructure in the night to 3 November, with the energy sector as the main target, Selenskyj wrote on the platform X. He said Russia fired 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles, and that air-raid alerts were still running at the time of his post. Power outages, some of them unplanned, continue in many towns and communities. In the northern Zhytomyr region, governor Witalij Bunetschko reported more than 180,000 households without electricity across about 130 localities.

Further strikes were reported in the same live blog. A missile attack on Dnipro killed one person and injured 17, according to Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional military administration, who said hospitals were damaged and patients moved to other facilities. In the Kharkiv hospital attack, the number of injured rose to 62 from 46 earlier, according to governor Oleh Synjehubow. In Zaporizhzhia region, Selenskyj said the death toll from Russian airstrikes on a village had risen from 26 to 29, with people still under the rubble. Selenskyj is due in Berlin on Tuesday ahead of new talks on ending the war, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.