Komyshuvakha: 53 dead in the deadliest strike on Zaporizhzhia region since the invasion began

Civilian casualties of russian strikes on 6 November and the night to 7 November, as reported by the authorities; the data are incomplete and may rise. The search in Komyshuvakha is still under way, so no daily total has been added up:

• Komyshuvakha (Zaporizhzhia region), strike of 2.11 — at least 53 dead, search in its fifth day; no final figure (Mykhailo Semikin, head of the RMA, 6.11, per the Kyiv Independent)
• Kyiv, night to 7.11 — 0 dead, 5 wounded (including a 14-year-old girl), two hospitalised; ballistic attack, the Northern Bridge, a residential building and a kindergarten damaged (mayor Vitali Klitschko, via Ukrinform 07:44)
• Sumy, 6.11 — 7 wounded; KAB guided-bomb strike (per Ukrinform, 22:31 6.11)
• Kyiv region, night to 6.11 — 3 wounded; energy infrastructure and a warehouse complex damaged (via Ukrinform, 6.11)
• Brovary district (Kyiv region), night to 7.11 — 1 wounded; a house set on fire by a jet-powered drone (Tymur Tkachenko, head of the RMA, per the Kyiv Independent)
• Vinnytsia region, 7.11 — people wounded, the headline read gives no number; infrastructure damaged (Ukrinform, 08:30)

Komyshuvakha, a village in the Zaporizhzhia region: 53 dead as of 6.11 (43 a day earlier), according to Mykhailo Semikin, head of the Regional Military Administration. They include two rescuers and a military medic who had come to help. The search was in its fifth day; there is no final figure. On 2 November russia struck a school where residents had gathered for aid with guided bombs, then, according to Zelensky, dropped nine more on a shelter — one of them a 3-tonne FAB-3000. The sources read do not mention a day of mourning.

Kyiv, night to 7 November: 5 wounded, including a 14-year-old girl; two hospitalised (per mayor Vitali Klitschko). Waves of ballistic missiles came from ≈23:00 on 6.11 until morning. The Pivnichnyi (Northern) Bridge over the Dnipro was damaged and closed in both directions, as were a five-storey apartment block in the Solomianskyi district and a kindergarten. The mayor called the power supply situation “extremely difficult” (Ukrinform, 08:24).

190 combat clashes on 6 November — 6% below the weekly average (203), according to Ukraine’s General Staff (report as of 08:00 7.11, Ukrinform 08:37). The heaviest fighting was on the Kostiantynivka direction (15 attacks); on the Pokrovsk direction there were 5, a third of the previous day’s 16. russia carried out 75 air strikes with 261 KAB guided bombs and one missile strike, used 6,903 kamikaze drones and shelled Ukrainian positions and towns 2,184 times (22% fewer than the day before), 53 times with multiple rocket launchers. The named directions account for only 46 of the 190 attacks; the report does not explain the gap. Attacks by direction:

• Kostiantynivka — 15
• Lyman — 8
• Huliaipole — 8
• Pokrovsk — 5
• South Slobozhanskyi — 5
• Kupiansk — 3
• Sloviansk — 2
• North Slobozhanskyi and Kursk — no assaults (1 air strike with 6 KABs, 73 shelling attacks)
• Kramatorsk, Oleksandrivka, Orikhiv and Prydniprovskyi — no assaults

2,280 russian troops lost in a day — 22% above the 30-day average (1,863), according to Ukraine’s General Staff (Ukrinform, 7.11 07:54); not independently verified, figures are being updated. The total since 24.02.2022 is about 1,604,110. In the past day:

• Personnel — 2,280
• Armoured vehicles — 3
• Artillery systems — 44
• MLRS — 3
• Air defence systems — 3
• Operational-tactical drones — 1,224
• Vehicles and fuel tankers — 460
• Unmanned ground vehicles — 8
• Special equipment — 3
• Tanks — no increase given in the material

unverifiedThe “South” group of forces said (6.11) that the village of Mala Tokmachka remains under the control of Ukraine’s Defence Forces. The material read does not list any changes of control over settlements in the General Staff report for 6.11.

172 Shahed-type attack drones on the night to 7 November — 24% fewer than the night before (227) and a third below the weekly average (254). But 137 of them (80%) were jet-powered, against 86 of 227 (38%) the previous night. The material read does not say how many ballistic missiles were launched. According to Ukraine’s Air Force, 149 drones (87%; 117 of them jet-powered) and 4 ballistic missiles were shot down or suppressed. The attack on Kyiv began at around 23:00 on 6.11 and lasted until morning; at 01:08 Ukrinform reported a series of explosions.

In his evening address on 6 November Zelensky warned that, according to intelligence, russia was preparing a new strike on energy facilities, the bridges over the Dnipro and civilian infrastructure. A few hours later the ballistic attack on Kyiv began; among the damage was the Northern Bridge across the Dnipro. The president gave no details (timing, weapons); he said Ukraine needs interceptors for its Patriot systems and urged partners not to delay deliveries.

unverifiedEnergy. On 7.11 Klitschko called the power supply situation in Kyiv extremely difficult (Ukrinform, 08:24); in the Zhytomyr region a strike on an energy facility caused a large-scale blackout (Ukrinform, 08:52). On 6.11 there were emergency power cuts in Kyiv and four regions; energy facilities were attacked in the Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv regions. According to the Kyiv Independent, on 3.11 Kyiv suffered the biggest attack on its energy system this year.

💥📏 40 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Strike results, 5–6 November. Ukraine’s General Staff (6.11, per the Kyiv Independent 13:17): two ammunition depots hit in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region — near Melitopol and Khliborobne — as well as a drone control post near Chasiv Yar and a fuel depot near Luhanske in occupied Donetsk region. The aim, according to the General Staff, is to weaken russia’s firepower and disrupt supplies; no damage details. The occupation authorities are silent on these sites (and their word alone would not be confirmation).

local authorities silentLocal authorities (occupation authorities of the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions, 5–6.11): no statements about these sites found in the materials read

🔥unverified📏 185 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Afipsky oil refinery (Krasnodar Krai, southern russia), night to 6 November — an update to yesterday’s issue. Monitoring channels, including Exilenova Plus, reported a drone attack and a fire (Kyiv Independent, Ukrinform). There is still no official confirmation from Ukraine’s General Staff, SBU, HUR (military intelligence), Special Operations Forces or USF. According to the Kyiv Independent, the local authorities did not comment (yesterday we reported that the Kuban emergency headquarters acknowledged a fire at an enterprise in Afipsky “caused by falling drone debris”, without naming the site). The strike is unconfirmed.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Krasnodar Krai authorities, 6.11): Kyiv Independent: the local authorities did not comment

🛢️unverifiedNight to 7 November: Saratov refinery, Rostov, Oryol. Monitoring channels (mainly Exilenova Plus) reported a fire at the Saratov oil refinery on the Volga, a large fire near the Almaz plant in Rostov-on-Don and a strike on the Proton plant in Oryol; “local channels” say Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missiles were used. The Kyiv Independent could not verify this. There is no official confirmation yet from Ukraine’s General Staff, SBU, HUR, Special Operations Forces or USF; no statements by the local authorities were found in the material read.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (governors of the Saratov, Rostov and Oryol regions, 7.11): no statements found for this date

📊unverified31,398 missions by unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in October — a record, and more than four times as many as in January 2026 (7,511), according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence.

🛡️unverifiedrussia lacks air-defence systems to cover its military airfields, according to Ukraine’s Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk (only a Ukrinform headline was read).

🕵️unverifiedrussian intelligence services are recruiting Ukrainian refugees for sabotage in Europe, according to Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service (only the headline was read).

🤝Three days before the talks: trilateral meetings of Ukraine, russia and the US are expected on 10–11 November in Abu Dhabi. Ukraine’s delegation will be led by Rustem Umerov, the secretary of its National Security and Defence Council — confirmed by Davyd Arakhamia, head of the ruling party’s parliamentary group, after a White House briefing; military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov will take part but not lead it, said presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn (at 18:02 Ukrinform had reported the opposite — see Divergences). Budanov told CBS News the talks are “not the last and not final”. Kyiv will raise russia’s strikes, including the one on Komyshuvakha; Ukraine’s UN ambassador and first deputy foreign minister Serhiy Kyslytsya said Ukraine will test russia’s readiness for de-escalation and an energy ceasefire.

Berlin shares four principles for peace with the US, German government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said at a briefing on 6 November: end the war first and discuss European security afterwards; any agreement must be a single package; NATO consensus is needed; Europeans must take part in the negotiations.

🛡️unverified€437 million — the defence package Spain pledged after Zelensky’s visit; Germany announced a winter package. Both are to speed up deliveries of Patriot, IRIS-T and F-16s. Finland’s defence minister blamed a lack of political will in the US for delays in Patriot missiles. Only headlines and previews were read.

📅unverifiedForeign Minister Andrii Sybiha met his Polish counterpart Radosław Sikorski in Warsaw; Poland insists on a ceasefire before peace talks. On 10 November Sybiha will attend a session of G7 foreign ministers in Paris.

🕊️ Ukraine and russia — a repeat from yesterday’s issue (the same Ukrinform report, 6.11 03:40): at the White House Trump promised a “big deal” covering Ukraine and possibly all of Europe, said the war would be settled “pretty soon”, that 25,000 people die every month, and called the fighting a “bloody slaughter”. He disclosed nothing about the deal or his talks with Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s envoy for economic cooperation. The English original was not read, so there is no direct quote.

⚠️unverified Iran. On 5 November in the Oval Office, after a meeting with his national security advisers, Trump said the US would soon decide whether to continue strikes to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme; he would rather not destroy the rest of the country, but could. According to Axios, three options are on the table: new strikes, economic pressure, or a deal with concessions (lifting the blockade, unfreezing part of Iran’s funds, IAEA inspectors), with Qatar and others as mediators. Trump’s English words were not read in the original (the Axios article did not open).

🛡️Europe. On the same Thursday Trump discussed security with several European leaders, Jared Kushner wrote on X (via Ukrinform, 6.11); his five strands of a new European security architecture involving Ukraine, with NATO at its centre, are under “US and China reactions”.

🙂No verified funny episode was found for the day.

🏛️Jared Kushner (adviser to the US administration) set out five strands of a new security architecture for Europe in a post on X on 6 November: consultations, crisis communication channels, military transparency, mutual measures to reduce the risk of escalation, and a long-term stability framework. According to him, every country keeps the right to choose its own security arrangements and alliances; the consultation format is called “Shell Bay”, and the US plans to bring russia in as well.

No statements on the war by Chinese officials were found in the material read for the day.

🗣️Vladimir Putin, russia’s president, thanked the UAE for its readiness to host the talks on 10 November — at an operational meeting with permanent members of his Security Council on 6 November, as retold by Profile. In his words, the UAE consistently helps Moscow look for ways to settle the “Ukrainian crisis” and to resolve humanitarian questions of prisoner exchanges; after the UAE talks he proposed moving on to food security. Vladimir Medinsky, russia’s chief negotiator, and Putin’s foreign-policy aide Yuri Ushakov were among those present; the material read contains no direct quotes from Putin. That same evening the ballistic attack on Kyiv began.

🗣️Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press secretary, confirmed on 3 November that russia will take part in the trilateral talks on 10–11 November in Abu Dhabi and that Vladimir Medinsky remains its chief negotiator: “Yes, I can confirm this date.” The statement is more than a day old and is given as context; no new statements by Peskov, Lavrov or Medvedev were found for 6–7.11.