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MOSCOW, November 12, 2026 – Russia said on Thursday that it had carried out a massive overnight strike on military factories in Ukraine, as Kyiv reported a woman killed and several people injured in the capital and damage to energy and transport infrastructure across eight regions.
The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces used precision-guided weapons and attack drones against Ukraine’s military-industrial and energy facilities in Kyiv and the wider Kyiv region, Reuters, TASS and Kommersant reported.
According to the ministry, the targets included the Generator plant in Kyiv, which it said assembled Hornet medium-range drones, drone assembly sites in Brovary and Yahotyn in the Kyiv region, and a factory making components for solid rocket fuel. It also said it had struck two electricity substations in Zhytomyr that it claimed supplied Ukraine’s defence industry, and a cargo ship it said was carrying supplies for the Ukrainian army on its way to Odesa.
Ukraine has not confirmed Russia’s claims that military plants were hit. Ukrainian officials instead described damage to civilian, energy and transport sites.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a Russian drone struck a nine-storey apartment building in the city’s Solomianskyi district, setting it on fire. One woman was killed and five people were injured, he said, according to preliminary information. Explosions were heard in the capital in the early hours, a Reuters witness said.
Ukrainian officials said destruction was recorded in eight regions, with strikes mainly hitting energy facilities and transport infrastructure, Ukrainian outlet LB.ua reported. High-voltage substations were attacked in the Odesa and Rivne regions, and the grounds of a power generation facility were hit in Zaporizhzhia. Residential buildings were also damaged in Rivne, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions.
In Kyiv, a construction and manufacturing enterprise was damaged by ballistic missiles, while a civilian enterprise in the Kyiv region also came under missile attack, Ukrainian officials said. Rescue workers, police, medics and energy crews were deployed to deal with the aftermath.
The regional head in Rivne said the attack damaged power infrastructure, leaving the town of Kostopil and several other localities without electricity. In the southern Mykolaiv region, the governor reported damage to power facilities, industrial sites and port infrastructure.
Russia launched ballistic and anti-ship missiles as well as 123 attack drones overnight, and Ukrainian air defences neutralised 94 aerial targets, including five missiles and 89 drones, according to Ukrainian figures reported by LB.ua.
In Russia, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defences had shot down five Ukrainian drones heading towards the capital overnight. The Russian Defence Ministry said 71 Ukrainian drones had been brought down over Russian territory in total.
The strikes came as US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Putin, part of the latest push by Washington for a deal to end the war in Ukraine, according to Reuters. Earlier talks on ending the conflict had ended without a breakthrough.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Both sides have stepped up long-range drone and missile attacks on each other’s energy and industrial facilities.
Source: Reuters’ X (post)
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