KYIV — Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 162 attack drones, Ukraine's Air Force said on Tuesday morning, on the day US-mediated talks between Russian, Ukrainian and American negotiators opened in Abu Dhabi. Ukrainian air defences shot down or suppressed 135 of the drones, but impacts were recorded at 19 locations across the country, the Air Force said.
Source: Ukrinform via EuropeSays, Nov 10 2026
The attack began at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, November 9, the Air Force said. The ballistic missile was launched from the Millerovo area in Russia's Rostov region, and the drones were launched from Bryansk, Oryol, Shatalovo and Millerovo in Russia and from Hvardiiske in Russian-occupied Crimea. Of the 162 drones, 96 were jet-powered, alongside Shahed-type attack drones and Gerbera and Parodiya decoy drones, according to the Ukrainian statement carried by the state news agency Ukrinform.
Air defences — aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic-warfare and unmanned-systems units and mobile fire groups — had downed or suppressed 135 drones by 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, the Air Force said in preliminary figures. Debris from downed drones fell at nine locations, it added. All of these figures are Ukraine's own account of the night and have not been independently verified.
In the evening of November 9, before the main overnight wave, Russian drones attacked Kharkiv, injuring four people in the city's Kholodnohirskyi district, Ukrinform reported. Separately, a municipal care facility in Pereiaslav in the Kyiv region, which houses people who need social support and ongoing care, was damaged in the overnight strikes; two people were injured and the other residents were evacuated, according to reporting carried by JNews.
Strikes were also reported in the Poltava region, where damage to energy infrastructure in Poltava district caused disruptions to electricity and water supplies in the regional capital, the same reporting said. Energy targets have been at the centre of Russia's autumn campaign against Ukraine, and Ukrainian officials have warned of a hard winter ahead as strikes on power and heating networks continue.
Russia's Ministry of Defence claimed that four electrical substations had been hit in three Ukrainian regions — a 330-kilovolt substation in Vilnohirsk in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a 154-kilovolt substation in Kremenchuk in the Poltava region, and two 110-kilovolt substations in Pereiaslav and Yahotyn in the Kyiv region. Ukraine has not confirmed the Russian ministry's claim, and it is reported here as Moscow's account, not as a verified fact.
The overnight barrage landed as the first US-mediated trilateral talks since February opened in Abu Dhabi, where post-war security guarantees for Ukraine top the agenda. Read: Abu Dhabi trilateral talks open
The war, launched by Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, is now in its fifth year. Nightly drone and missile attacks have become a near-daily feature of it, with Ukraine reporting the launch directions, drone types and interception figures each morning, and Russia routinely claiming that energy and military targets were hit. Neither side's battlefield claims can be independently verified in full.
What happens next turns on Abu Dhabi: the talks run on November 10 and 11, and US officials have said they are seeking a final end to the conflict. Whether a night of 162 drones hardens Kyiv's demand for firm security guarantees — or is read in Moscow as pressure ahead of a deal — will be one of the first tests of the room.