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Russian strikes leave 600,000 people without power in Ukraine as drone attack kills one in Russia
A Russian overnight attack damaged key energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, leaving more than 600,000 people without electricity, while a Ukrainian drone strike killed a man in Russia’s Kursk region, its governor said.
Russian strikes leave 600,000 people without power in Ukraine as drone attack kills one in Russia
A man looks out from the only illuminated window in Kiev during an outage due to Russian attacks on energy facilities, November 7 2026. /AFP

A Russian overnight attack on energy facilities in Ukraine's eastern Dnipropetrovsk region left more than 600,000 people without electricity, Ukrainian power company DTEK said on Sunday.

"Important energy facilities in the region were damaged in an overnight attack," the company said on Telegram.

Meanwhile, one person was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Kursk region, regional governor Alexander Khinshtein said on Sunday.

The drone hit a tractor that was in operation in the village of Pervomayskoe, killing a 40-year-old man, he said.

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Russia hit power substation in Ukraine and container ship at sea

The Russian defence ministry said its forces had hit energy infrastructure used by the Ukrainian military, as well as a container ship delivering weapons and military equipment to Ukraine south-west of the Black Sea port city of Odessa.

Russia had hit a power substation in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, which supplied electricity to Ukraine's defence industry, the ​ministry said on Sunday.

SOURCE:TRT World and Agencies