317 drones in one night — nearly double the night before, a day ahead of the Abu Dhabi talks

Civilian victims of russian strikes on 8 November and the night of 9 November — as reported by the authorities on the morning of 9.11; the data are incomplete and may rise. The reports cover different periods and partly overlap, so they have not been added into a total. On a separate line — the updated toll of the 2.11 strike on Komyshuvakha:

• Komyshuvakha (Zaporizhzhia region), strike of 2.11 — 55 killed (29 identified), another 45 people on the missing list (acting head of Zaporizhzhia RMA Mykhailo Semikin, Telegram, via LB.ua 8.11 17:45); the search is in its seventh day; aerial bombs on a civilian aid centre
• Kramatorsk, Bilenke and Druzhkivka (Donetsk region), 7.11 — 5 killed (three in Kramatorsk, two more in Bilenke and Druzhkivka) (regional governor Vadym Filashkin, via Ukrinform 9.11 08:35)
• Kyiv region, night of 7.11 — 1 killed, 2 injured; in Kyiv that night six were injured, including a child (Ukrinform round-up “Battle for Ukraine. Day 1718”, 7.11 19:58; the official source is not named in the round-up)
• Kharkiv region (Izium, Balakliia, Kharkiv), 8–9.11 — 0 killed, 14 hurt (2 of them children aged 14 and 17, acute stress reaction): Izium 9, Balakliia 3, Kharkiv 2; Kharkiv RMA, via Ukrinform 9.11 09:27
• Kremenchuk (Poltava region), night of 9.11 — 0 killed, 7 injured (1 of them a child, 16), a strike on a residential area and a private company (State Emergency Service, via Ukrinform 9.11 08:16; 4 injured reported earlier on the evening of 8.11 — not added)
• Zaporizhzhia region, 24 hours to the morning of 9.11 — 0 killed, 6 injured (1 of them a child) in Zaporizhzhia and the district; 819 strikes on 52 settlements (Ivan Fedorov, via Ukrinform 9.11 07:15)
• Donetsk region, 8.11 — 0 killed, 4 injured (Sloviansk — 2, Mykolaivka — 1, Raihorodok — 1) (Filashkin, via Ukrinform 9.11 08:35)
• Sumy region, 24 hours to the morning of 9.11 — 0 killed, 1 injured (aged 22, Sumy community), almost 40 strikes on 18 settlements (Sumy RMA, via Ukrinform 9.11 08:34)
• Kherson region, 24 hours to the morning of 9.11 — 0 killed, 2 injured (Ukrinform headline only, 9.11 08:17; text not read)

Komyshuvakha (Zaporizhzhia region), strike of 2 November. 45 people are now on the missing list — a new figure; the death toll is 55, as yesterday, with 29 identified (acting head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration Mykhailo Semikin, Telegram, via LB.ua, 8.11 17:45). Some of the missing are probably among those already found. The search is in its seventh day. On 8.11 a russian drone attacked rescuers at the site (an FPV drone, according to Zelensky): equipment was damaged, nobody was hurt. How the count grew: 37 (morning of 4.11), 42–43 (5.11, per LB.ua; Zelensky gave 43), 55 (8.11). The strike was carried out with guided aerial bombs (according to Semikin, first a FAB-500, then a FAB-3000 — a 3-tonne bomb; according to Zelensky, nine bombs in all) on the community’s underground resilience centre, where civilians received aid; the concrete structure collapsed. Four police officers are among the dead (National Police, 5.11). No day of mourning and no number of injured appear in the materials read.

Kremenchuk (Poltava region), night of 9 November. According to the State Emergency Service (Facebook, via Ukrinform, 08:16), russia struck a residential area of this industrial city on the Dnipro; fires broke out in several places and a private company in the area was also damaged. 7 people were injured, among them a 16-year-old; rescuers saved 15 people. The fires have been put out and damaged sites are being inspected. No deaths reported.

140 combat clashes on 8 November — the fewest since 25 October and 29% below the weekly average (196), according to Ukraine’s General Staff (report as of 08:00 on 9.11; at 22:00 on 8.11 it was 127). Fewer assaults did not mean less fire: 8,690 kamikaze drones — 28% above the weekly average — plus 84 airstrikes with 250 KABs (guided glide bombs) and 2,331 shelling attacks. The named directions account for only 44 of the 140 attacks; the report does not allocate the rest. Attacks by direction:

• Pokrovsk — 15
• Kostiantynivka — 9
• South Slobozhanskyi — 7
• Huliaipole — 5
• Lyman — 4
• North Slobozhanskyi — 3
• Kramatorsk — 1
• Kupiansk, Sloviansk, Oleksandrivka — no assaults
• Orikhiv, Prydniprovskyi — no active fighting recorded

2,980 — russia’s personnel losses in the 24 hours to 9 November, according to Ukraine’s General Staff: the most since at least 5 September, when our series begins, and 29% above the weekly average (2,304). Total: ~1,609,380; no independent confirmation. On 8.11 the General Staff called the losses of the first week of November a record: 16,130, over 2,300 a day (Ukrinform, 8.11 12:21). In the past 24 hours:

• personnel — 2,980
• tanks — 4 (total 12,462)
• armoured fighting vehicles — 15 (25,683)
• artillery systems — 68 (52,112)
• MLRS — 6 (2,263)
• air defence systems — 2 (1,753)
• aircraft, helicopters — 0 (452 and 356)
• operational-tactical UAVs — 1,843 (602,020)
• cruise missiles — 0 (5,196)
• vehicles (incl. tankers) — 638 (172,488)
• unmanned ground vehicles — 10 (3,109)
• special equipment — 1 (4,889)

🧭Oleshky (Kherson region). Zelensky (via Ukrinform, 8.11 18:22) said that russia, under cover of a humanitarian operation, had moved extra forces into occupied Oleshky — a town on the left bank of the Dnipro opposite Kherson — and the surrounding area, and had carried out a large rotation of personnel and equipment on the left bank; he told Ukraine’s military command to propose additional protection for the people of Kherson. Earlier the General Staff said russian forces had used the humanitarian pause in Oleshky to strengthen their positions. This is the Ukrainian side’s claim, not independently verified.

317 attack drones overnight into 9 November — nearly twice the previous night (167) and the most since 3 November (348); 105 of them jet-powered. According to Ukraine’s Air Force, as of 08:00 271 (85%) had been shot down or suppressed; hits at 31 locations (the most since 22 October), debris at 9. Preliminary data. Shahed, Banderol S-8000/Dan-T, Gerbera and Parodiya decoys are not counted separately; the report names no missiles. Launch sites: Bryansk, Oryol, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Shatalovo, Millerovo (russia), occupied Donetsk region, and Chauda and Hvardiiske in Crimea.

📊The week in numbers. Zelensky (via Ukrinform, 8.11 12:15) said that over the week russia fired 115 missiles of various types at Ukraine, almost 1,900 KAB glide bombs and more than 3,000 attack drones; many of the missiles were ballistic, many produced this year. A night attack on the energy system of Dnipropetrovsk region left more than 600,000 people in Dnipro and its surroundings without power; Kharkiv region had many outages, and in Zhytomyr region 140 apartment blocks were left without heating. The figures are Zelensky’s, not independently verified. He also said russian forces had hit Komyshuvakha with an FPV drone (an attack on rescuers).

⚡unverifiedEnergy, night of 7 November. According to Ukrinform’s round-up (7.11 19:58), russia struck the lines that carry power from nuclear plants to Kyiv and central Ukraine; Chernihiv was completely blacked out, Zhytomyr region had mass outages, and facilities of Naftogaz, the state energy company, were hit three times, causing a large fire. At 22:09 on 8.11 power began returning to homes in Dnipro; from 9.11 Kyiv is introducing back-up transport links between the left and right banks of the Dnipro (per a Ukrinform headline). The round-up does not name the official source of each fact.

💥Oryol, Proton-Electrotex plant, night of 7 November — an update to yesterday’s issue. Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed the strike with Neptune missiles (Facebook, via Ukrinform, 7.11 10:16): it says the plant, in a city about 330 km south-west of Moscow, makes modules for Kh-71 missiles and switches for Iskander-M launchers; hits, a fire and explosions were recorded. Governor Andrey Klychkov acknowledged damage to a plant in Oryol’s Sovetsky district without naming it. Ukrinform’s round-up “Day 1718” (7.11 19:58) adds nothing new beyond a large fire. Proton plants were already hit on 23.10 (5 killed, according to governor Klychkov).

local authorities: indirectLocal authorities (Andrey Klychkov, governor of the Oryol region, 7.11): confirmed an attack on a plant in Oryol’s Sovetsky district without naming it; production premises partly damaged

💥📏 110 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Bryansk region, on the border with north-eastern Ukraine, 6–7 November: two Iskander short-range ballistic missile launchers and a Pantsir-S1 air defence system were hit, the extent of the damage is being assessed — confirmed by Ukraine’s General Staff (Telegram, via Ukrinform, 7.11 11:04); Ukrinform’s round-up “Day 1718” (7.11 19:58) repeats it without details. The location within the region is not named; the map marker is placed at the city of Bryansk. No independent imagery and no statements by local authorities.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Bryansk region authorities, 6–7.11): no statements on these targets found in the materials read

💥📏 near the front line ≈Strike results: four drone control posts, 7–8 November. Ukraine’s General Staff (Telegram, via Ukrinform, 14:57 on 8.11) reported hitting enemy drone control posts over the past 24 hours: in occupied Berdiansk (the most valuable target — a temporary base and command post of a unit linked to Rubikon, russia’s elite drone centre), near Oleshky (Kherson region), near Bilytske (Donetsk region) and near Oleksandrovsky in russia’s Bryansk region. Results are being assessed. Confirmed by the General Staff; no independent imagery. Coordinates — centre of Berdiansk (approximate); none for the other posts.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (occupation authorities, Bryansk region authorities, 7–8.11): no statements on these targets found in the materials read (not searched for separately)

🚧unverified📏 45 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Bridge on the highway from Rostov-on-Don to the occupied territories, 8 November. According to Rostov governor Yury Slyusar (via BBC russian and Ukrinform, 8.11 09:50), a drone attack damaged the bridge over the Mius river on the Novorossiya highway (97th km, Neklinovsky district) — a supply route from russia to occupied southern Ukraine; construction machinery was damaged, including two crawler cranes, nobody was hurt, and traffic was stopped and then moved to the opposite carriageway. No Ukrainian confirmation was found in the materials read, so this is only an admission by the local authorities: the target is named, hence “confirms”, but it is not an official confirmation of the strike.

local authorities confirmLocal authorities (Yury Slyusar, governor of the Rostov region, 8.11): a drone damaged the bridge over the Mius on the Novorossiya highway (97th km, Neklinovsky district); no casualties; traffic was diverted to the opposite carriageway

As of the morning of 9 November, no new official confirmations (General Staff, SBU, HUR, SSO, USF, Southern Defence Forces, StratCom, Zaluzhnyi) of strikes on targets in russia, apart from the four drone control posts (8.11), were found in the materials read; no separate “Strike results” posts for 8–9.11 were found either. Confirmations often appear later in the day. On 4.11 Ukraine’s Defence Ministry published its October summary: by its count, 30 strategic targets in russia were hit, including the Proton-Electrotex plant in Oryol, Borisoglebsk airfield and others (Kyiv Post, 4.11; ministry figures, not independently verified).

unverifiedUkrainian intelligence: russia’s State Duma has acknowledged the risk of a budget failure in the next few years (per a Ukrinform headline, 8.11 01:49; text not read, which intelligence service and what source not established).

unverifiedaccording to the Financial Times (as retold by Ukrinform, 7.11, round-up “Day 1718”), the kremlin is having to reroute exports around the Black Sea because of successful Ukrainian strikes; the FT original was not read.

Ukraine’s General Staff (via Ukrinform, 8.11 12:21): russia lost 16,130 personnel on 1–7 November — the highest weekly figure since the start of the full-scale invasion, over 2,300 a day. These are Ukrainian figures, not independently verified; no UK MoD, UN or IAEA assessments for 8–9.11 could be found.

🕊️Three-way talks in Abu Dhabi. According to Ukrinform (8.11) and Reuters (7.11, updated 8.11; read via The Moscow Times), delegations of Ukraine, the US and russia are expected to meet in Abu Dhabi on 10–11 November — the first meeting in this format since February. The kremlin (Dmitry Peskov, to Interfax) named russia’s delegation: Vladimir Medinsky (head), deputy foreign ministers Sergei Ryabkov and Mikhail Galuzin, GRU military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov, and Yury Zhigarlovsky, deputy head of the General Staff’s Main Operations Directorate. French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot told RTL (8.11) that France “will be in Abu Dhabi” and Europe will be “well represented”; he did not say who would represent France. Ukraine’s delegation and the parties’ positions are not given in the materials read; the meeting has not yet taken place.

🛡️Patriot systems. German defence minister Boris Pistorius told the Funke media group (per Ukrinform citing DW, 8.11 13:29) that Berlin cannot currently give Ukraine more Patriot air defence systems because that would create “gaps in our own defence”; he urged other countries to step up deliveries, which will be discussed in mid-November at the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (the Ramstein format). On the Abu Dhabi meeting on 10–11.11 he said recent events give “little hope” of a quick ceasefire, and that a US–russia deal at Ukraine’s expense would be unacceptable.

⚖️Sanctions. Zelensky (via Ukrinform, 8.11 12:15) said Ukraine regularly passes partners data on russian companies involved in making ballistic missiles, stressed the need to synchronise EU and G7 sanctions and said he is counting on a “strong 22nd EU sanctions package”; if air defence is short, missiles have to be stopped on the production lines.

🕊️📞 Ukraine and russia. On 7.11 Trump spoke by phone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; according to the Turkish presidency (via Ukrinform, 8.11 11:10), they discussed diplomatic efforts to end russia’s war against Ukraine, and Erdoğan hopes for a “positive result” and called for more contacts with Ukraine and russia. This is the Turkish side’s account; Trump’s own words about the call are not in the materials read. Separately, Ukrainska Pravda (7.11) reported in a headline that Trump said diplomatic contacts on ending the war are continuing — the text could not be read.

🛢️ Iran and the elections. In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” (aired 8.11; per Ukrinform, 9.11 04:55) Trump blamed the Republicans’ midterm defeat on voters disliking the war with Iran and the sharp rise in petrol prices; he called the decision to attack Iran right, said Iran’s military capability had been weakened and that he does not plan further escalation. According to Ukrinform (9.11 02:37), Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed on X Tehran’s two-day offer of talks and of ending the war “on all fronts”, and warned of a tough response; Trump, according to the same report, called it “very unlikely” that he would again have to order the military into war while talks on the nuclear programme and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz continue. This is Ukrinform’s account; the English originals were not read.

🥊light notePress secretary from the UFC. According to CNN (via Ukrinform, 8.11), Trump jokingly suggested in a 7.11 post that UFC chief Dana White become White House press secretary, and the White House communications director reposted it with “Hell yes! Do it, Dana White!” (as retold by Ukrinform). According to CNN’s source, White turned the offer down, although at a press conference he dodged the question and said he was flying to Washington on Monday to meet Trump; a White House aide explained that Trump was joking. The press secretary post is currently vacant.

🧳unverifiedWitkoff and Kushner. According to headlines from Axios (3.11) and Ukrainska Pravda (6.11), special envoy Steve Witkoff announced that the US, russia and Ukraine would resume talks in Abu Dhabi next week, and adviser Jared Kushner said the US was preparing for talks with Ukraine and russia. The texts could not be read (pages unavailable), so we do not report what was said.

China: no official statements on the war or the talks for 8–9.11 were found in the materials read.

🗣️Vladimir Putin, president, 6 November, Security Council meeting (kremlin). According to the russian outlet Expert (21:16, 6.11), Putin discussed with the Council’s permanent members and invited guests the preparations for the three-way talks on 10–11.11 in the UAE, thanked the UAE leadership (“for which we are grateful to the leadership of the Arab Emirates”) and said the UAE “consistently help us in the search for a solution”; he proposed briefly discussing the talks and moving on to food security. Present were delegation head Vladimir Medinsky, Yury Ushakov (Putin’s foreign-policy aide), Nikolai Patrushev, deputy foreign ministers Galuzin and Ryabkov, GRU chief Kostyukov and Zhigarlovsky. Context: according to Reuters, most of the meeting was closed — the kremlin showed only the opening minutes, so there is no public record of what was discussed.

🗣️Dmitry Peskov, the kremlin spokesman, 7 November, in a comment to Interfax (per Reuters). He said russia’s delegation to the Abu Dhabi talks would include senior military officials and diplomats. The material read gives no position on the terms of a deal. Context: these are the first such talks since February; Reuters recalled that the previous US-mediated talks took place before the US and Israel went to war with Iran.