Symbolic imageRussia says it hit Ukrainian substations and Black Sea ships as drones target Leningrad region
Russia says it struck power substations in Ukraine and a ship off Odesa on Sunday, while 113 drones were downed over the Leningrad region overnight. US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi are due on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Russian Defence Ministry said overnight drone strikes on Sunday, 8 November, hit a 330-kV substation near Beloshitsy in the Zhitomir region that it says fed Ukrainian military-industrial facilities, according to TASS. TASS also cites the ministry on a hit on the Kamenskaya substation in Dnipropetrovsk region. Regional military administration head Oleksandr Hanja said two people were killed and seven wounded there on Sunday in nearly 40 Russian attacks with drones, artillery and an aerial bomb.
Ships off Odesa
TASS reports that Russian forces hit a container ship southwest of Odesa that Moscow says was delivering weapons and military supplies to Ukraine. Reuters reports that Russia claims hits on three ships in the Black Sea.
Drones over Russia
Governor Alexander Drozdenko said on Monday that 113 drones were downed over the Leningrad region overnight. Debris hit an apartment in Kirishi, a family was evacuated and no one was hurt. On Sunday the Russian ministry reported 50 Ukrainian drones downed over Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Rostov and Crimea.
Other opinions
TASS presents the strikes as hitting military supply, while Le Monde describes continued shelling of Ukrainian energy infrastructure.