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Russian Attacks on Ukraine Kill Two, Leave Donetsk Region Without Power

Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least six civilians, including children, and cut power to tens of thousands in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia, officials said.

  • Russian forces' overnight attacks on Nov. 2, 2025, cut power to the entire Donetsk region by targeting energy facilities, regional governors said.
  • Kyiv says the strikes aim to wear down civilians, while Russia rejected U.S. calls to halt the invasion and renewed its energy grid campaign.
  • Officials reported at least 15 civilians killed and 20 injured, including children aged 11 and 14 in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
  • Retaliatory attacks hit Russian oil infrastructure, including Tuapse port, where a Ukrainian drone strike set a tanker ablaze and damaged the Rosneft-linked terminal.
  • Kyiv announced Saturday it had deployed special forces to Pokrovsk amid an intense assault, with hundreds of Russian soldiers infiltrating logistics hubs; Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky said, `A comprehensive operation to destroy and displace enemy forces from Pokrovsk is under way`.
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The entire territory of the Donetsk region under Ukraine ' s control was left without electricity and was reported by the head of the regional military administration, Vadim Filashkin.

·Riga, Latvia
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Russia continues its strikes and attacks of Russian drones against Ukraine as a whole, killing many people in the night of Saturday, 1st to Sunday, 2nd of November. They target particularly Ukrainian energy infrastructure, causing power cuts throughout the country. In the East, the whole Donetsk region is without electricity, as well as a large part of the Zaporijjia region (South).

·Paris, France
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The Kyiv Independent broke the news in Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday, November 2, 2025.
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