The Ukrainian regional recap and damage report covers the period between 00:01 and 23:59 on November 5th 2026, including information from the General Staff and the Ukrainian force, as well as the following regions:

General Staff

Day 1,716 of the Russian-imposed war on Ukraine began with a report from the General Staff reporting that 184 combat clashes were recorded in the previous 24 hours.

Also in the previous day, Russia reportedly lost 2,380 personnel, while damage or destruction was caused to one tank, three armoured combat vehicles, 23 artillery systems, two multiple launch rocket systems, five air defence systems, five ground-based robotic complexes, 1,163 unmanned aerial vehicles, 375 automobiles, and two units of special equipment.

Russia reportedly carried out 89 airstrikes deploying 289 guided aerial bombs, as well as 7,045 kamikaze and FPV drones, while carrying out 2,449 artillery strikes on populated areas and positions of Ukrainian troops.

Air Force

Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russia had launched 128 attack drones of various types, including 65 jet drones, as well as two X-35 guided air-to-surface missiles which had been launched from the Black Sea from 6pm on November 4th to 8am on November 5th.

According to initial information, air defences had suppressed or intercepted 105 drones, including 48 jet drones, but hits were recorded from missiles and drones at 18 locations, while debris from downed targets reportedly fell at 9 other locations.

Dnipropetrovsk

State Emergency Services reported that three people were injured at the scenes of the Russian attacks they attended, as Russian forces targeted six districts of the region 20 times.

Three people had been injured in Dnipro, along with damage to infrastructure, residential buildings, and garages, while fires also broke out, and damage was also sustained to infrastructure in the communities of Novooleksandrivska and Samara, adding that attacks were also reported on the districts of Pavlohrad, Kamiansk, Synelnykove, and Nikopol.

According to Ganzha, the regional air defence forces reportedly shot down 30 drones over the skies of the region in the previous night, noting that Russian forces had struck six districts of the region with drones almost 20 times.

Due to the continued challenging situation on the electricity network following Russian large-scale missile strikes earlier this week, a number of trans and trolleybuses had reduced operations for another day, because emergency shutdowns of substations were possible.

Four people were reported to have been injured in an attack on Thursday morning, as Ganzha reported that Russia used artillery, causing women aged 47 and 87 to be hospitalised in a moderate condition, while the other two injured were to be treated as outpatients.

Ganzha added that damage had been caused to at least ten private homes, apartment buildings, outbuildings, and private cars, while windows and doors of other properties had been damaged by the blast wave, along with damage to around 20 garages from subsequent strikes.

Six women were injured in total during the day, Ganzha stated in his evening report, noting three were hospitalised, adding that damage was caused to apartment buildings, private homes, a hotel, an educational institution, infrastructure, and vehicle, due to Russian strikes during the day.

A child was injured in the Synelnykove region, as damage was caused to private homes, a store, infrastructure, and a warehouse, while Russia reportedly also attacked Pavlohrad, Kamianske, and Kryvyi Rih, according to Head of the Local Military Administration Mykola Lukashenko.

Firefighters reported the extinguished blaze at 9pm that had broken out in a two-story warehouse building following a drone strike, and firefighters continued to contain the blaze despite threats of repeated shelling.

Donetsk

Russia reportedly struck Sloviansk with a drone while rescuers were extinguishing a fire that had broken out, targeting the city with four drones in total, according to State Emergency Services, adding that damage was caused to an administrative building, production facilities and two stores.

While a fire broke out on the territory of a car centre, with Russian drones continuing to circle nearby as rescuers contained the blaze, and one of the drones eventually struck where the rescuers were working, but thankfully the officers of the SES had reacted in time and took cover, escaping injury, adding that the SES equipment was also undamaged.

Head of the Regional Military Administration Vadym Filashkin reported that two people were killed in Serhiyivka and two more in Yasnohirka following strikes between Wednesday and Thursday, adding that two residents of Kramatorsk, as well as a resident each from Sloviansk, Yasnohirka, and Ocertyno, were injured.

Over the previous day, the Russians had reportedly launched FAB-250 bombs and other weapons on the region, resulting in a 77-year-old man being injured, along with damage or destruction of at least 17 private homes, a medical facility, and a ceramics factory, according to the Head of the City Military Administration Vadym Lyakh,.

Kramatorsk also came under Russian attacks, as an FPV drone struck a civilian vehicle, which resulted in two passengers being injured, while another drone struck an ambulance, but there were no casualties in the incident, while a civilian vehicle was damaged in the Cherkasy district, and a monastery was damaged in Stepanka.

Ukrainian forces reportedly struck a mobile fire group, an ammunition depot, a supply depot, as well as a repair and recovery unit of Russia, reported the General Staff in a morning report on November 5th.

Russia struck Sloviansk with guided aerial bombs on the morning of November 5th, resulting in further damage to administrative buildings, a production facility, two stores, and a fire that broke out on the premises of a car service centre.

The Russian forces also struck a car in the Kramatorsk district in the evening, which resulted in a male driver being killed, according to the spokesman for the Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Anastasia Medvedeva.

Kharkiv

State Emergency Services said that Russia attacked a postal service and warehouse overnight, causing fires to break out in the Pysochen community when a Nova Poshta facility was struck, adding that a second attack was launched as rescuers attempted to contain the blaze, but the services were in a shelter and unaffected by the second strike.

A Russian drone struck a warehouse belonging to a private company in the Bezlyudiv community as well, reported the SES, noting that a large fire broke out, but firefighters managed to contain the fire and eventually extinguish the blaze, adding that there were no casualties reported at either of the scenes.

Three people were injured in Derhachi, which included a 67-year-old man, a 40-year-old woman, and an eight-year-old boy, as a fire broke out on the premises of private property following the fall of a drone.

A 57-year-old was injured in the community of Vilkhuvat in the Prykolotne district, along with a 48-year-old man in the Starosaltivska community of Shestakove following damage to a car.

Head of the Regional State Administration Oleh Syniehubov reported that a 35-year-old of Nemyshyansky experienced an acute stress reaction following a drone falling, which resulted in windows blown out of an educational institution, along with a car and a nearby small kiosk.

As a result of an attack with KABS on the village of Pysky-Radkivskyi, a local pensioner had sustained minor injuries, according to the Borova Military Administration, while medical personnel in Izyum reportedly provided assistance to a 15-year-old boy injured in strikes on November 2nd, according to the RMA.

Russia struck a civilian enterprise in Zlatopol with two drones, according to Mayor Mykola Baksheyev, noting warehouse premises with finished products, production equipments, and food products had been damaged, while a fire had broken out at a nearby warehouse, while adjacent production and utility buildings had sustained damage.

Guided aerial bombs were repeatedly heard exploding in the Izyum community at around 9:45pm, according to the City Military Administration, coming around 2 hours after the report of MLRS shelling in the eastern outskirts of the community at around 7:40pm by the city council.

Power outages occurred in the central and southern parts of Izyum following the Russian strikes, according to the Local Military Administration, as a Russian jet powered drone and recon drone were reported to be heading to the community to oversee the extent of the damage.

Kherson

Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin reported that Russia had killed one person and injured another three following attacks on 32 settlements of the region in the previous 24 hours, noting that damage had been caused to an administrative building, four multi-story buildings, and two private houses.

Two residents of Komyshan, near Kherson, required medical assistance following Russian strikes on Wednesday afternoon, according to the City Military Administration, who said the women, aged 62 and 76, had sustained concussions, mine-blast injuries, and suffered from acute stress reactions.

A 56-year-old resident of Novovorontsivka in the region is under medical supervision after suffering a concussion on the morning of November 3rd following a Russian attack, after the man was inside a building which the drone had struck, according to the Regional Military Administration.

Head of the Kherson City Military Administration Yaroslav Shanko told the United News marathon that drones can reach all areas of the region now, so no areas are safe, including the coastal areas, the Korabel micro-district, and the city centre.

Shanko said Russia had been using drones to remotely mine populated areas within Kherson and other communities with various types of mines, disguising them as different objects, which poses a particular threat in the fall when there is a lot of foliage.

Kirovohrad

Russia injured three people when a residential building was destroyed following the fall of a Russian drone in the Kropyvnytskyi district, causing a 40sq metre fire to break out at the impact scene, reported State Emergency Services, noting that the three injured people had been transferred to emergency personnel.

Kyiv

A fire broke out in the Bucha district following an early morning Russian strike, with rescuers from Bucha and other districts attending the scene to tackle the blaze, and additional forces reportedly being deployed, but the fire had been contained, and efforts were underway to eliminate the hotspots at the time of the State Emergency Services report at 7.20am on Thursday.

With such an intense barrage of Russian strikes, the stable operation and existence of critical infrastructure in Kyiv were in serious doubt, reported Mayor Vitali Klitschko, warning that if several missiles or drones swarmed at the same time, ‘no protective structures could cope with this,’ adding that Kyiv was operating under difficult conditions and were exploring various scenarios.

Issues were reported with public transportation throughout the day, which began with power outages implemented in parts of the districts of Sviatoshynskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Podilskyi, while the metro reportedly stopped operating temporarily on the red line due to voltage fluctuations in the network.

Numerous reports continued to be received in relation to sudden power outages across the capital, with advice to top on water whenever possible, while ground transportation had also started to stop, and an update at just after lunch reported water outages in the Dnipro, Darnitsa, Shevchenkivskyi, Holosiivskyi, and Pecherskyi districts of Kyiv.

Around an hour later the entire city had reported outages with water supplies, while Kyiv residents had allegedly started panic buying bottles of water from the shelves of stores and supermarkets.

Drones continued to target the 330kV Zakhidna substation, located near Bilyhorodka, around 4pm in the afternoon, causing power outages in the area and disruptions for the local community, while videos began to show widespread blackouts and dark nights, along with traffic queues due to motorists choosing to drive instead of using public transportation.

Russia launched a massive attack on Kyiv using Geran rockets targeting the energy infrastructure in the area of Bila Tserkva, causing a difficult situation to emerge, and energy workers were on the ground trying to restore supplies.

Mykolaiv

McDonald’s appeared to be hoping to be the new ‘humanitarian centres’ during air raid alerts, with trials beginning in Poltava and Chernihiv for the stores to continue serving customers during yellow-level air raid alerts, as long as the monitoring system does not detect an immediate threat to the location, the company announced.

Odesa

Footage appeared online from what appeared to be impacts of two X-35 cruise missiles which had been launched from the Black Sea and had hit the Akkerman area, as ZMINA reported the Hermoplast plant in the region was likely destroyed in the missile strike that occurred.

Poltava

Water supply was temporarily suspended in some districts of the region due to an unstable power grid, but specialists worked to stabilise the equipment’s operation and succeeded by early evening.

Rivne

Power outages had been reported in the Dubno district following Russian drone strikes, and emergency power outages were scheduled to be in effect throughout the day on November 5th, as service workers attempted to balance the energy system and prevent larger-scale accidents.

Sumy

A 57-year-old woman and a 78-year-old man were reportedly injured during a drone strike on Putivil on Thursday morning, according to the local police, stating that a woman aged 69 was killed, adding that two men aged 54 and 40 were injured as a result of a mortar strike in a separate attack on the Seredyna-Buda community.

Russia struck the Hlukhiv community on Thursday morning, resulting in damage to residential buildings and a cafeteria, according to the Regional Military Administration, who noted that a civilian infrastructure facility had also been damaged at the scene.

Head of the Shostka District Military Administration Andriy Belyayev reported that a 57-year-old woman from the Hlukhiv district had been injured as a result of a Russian strike and a 16-year-old girl sought medical assistance, while damage had been caused to windows of three residential buildings and cars nearby due to the blast wave, added the Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

Russia reportedly targeted the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, which was built at the end of the 18th century/beginning of the 19th century in the Yunakivka region, which had the flag of the Ukrainian forces raised on it in the summer of 2026.

Later, the drone footage was used to create a digital three-dimension model of the landmark, which has now been documented, and while the church is currently impossible to fully inspect, some assessments have been carried out by the local Suspilne reporters.

Windows were shattered in an apartment building and a non-residential building following a Russian drone impact, which also damaged multiple nearby vehicles, but didn’t cause any injuries or casualties, reported the State Emergency Services.

Vinnytsia

State Emergency Services said that as a result of the Russian strikes on Thursday morning, parked trucks and a trailer had caught fire in one of the communities, while two drivers had been injured and hospitalised, adding that rescuers were forced to retreat to safe distances due to the threat of repeated attacks.

Planned maintenance on the utility networks caused interruptions of water, heating, electricity, and hot water in certain areas of the region on Thursday, leading to the suspension of the public transportation network until late in the afternoon.

Two people were reported injured following a Russian strike on the territory of a community adjacent to Vinnytsia, causing a fire to break out at the scene, and all relevant services worked to extinguish it, while the injured were admitted to hospital in a moderate condition, according to the Mayor.

Russian forces struck critical and infrastructure in several communities of the region, according to Head of the Regional Military Administration Natalia Zabolotna, noting that three people had been reported to have been injured with minor injuries.

Two trucks and a trailer were damaged at one location, while 11 cars were damaged, four of which were completely destroyed, in another location, and after the air raid alert was lifted, energy workers began to restore the damaged facilities.

Zaporizhzhia

The number of people who had been killed in the Russian strike on the village of Komyshuvakha on November 2nd had risen to 43 as of Thursday afternoon, while search and rescue operations continued, along with debris removal at the scene.

Acting Head of the Regional Military Administration, Seminikin, reported on Thursday morning that Russia had killed three people and injured one other during the previous 24 hours, noting that Russia had launched 784 attacks on 53 settlements of the region, resulting in 89 reports of damage to homes, vehicles, and infrastructure.

Zaporizhzhia police reported that a 54-year-old was killed following a strike on a private house in Bilenke, while an attack on a five-story building in Vilnyansk claimed the lives of a 52-year-old woman and 64-year-old man, as another man aged 59 sought medical assistance for injuries.

Five very loud explosions were reported from incoming drones and KABs which were reportedly heading towards the riverbed in the region, and were expected to fly over the right bank towards the island and bridges.

Later, it was confirmed that the bridges were being targeted, as the explosions were reported in the nearby vicinity of the bridges, and a drone also reportedly later hit the Metallurgiv Park, but there was no information about casualties, despite debris causing a fire to break out.

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