Russia launched a massive overnight missile and drone barrage across Ukraine on the night of November 2-3, and in Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city, ballistic missiles and guided aerial bombs struck a medical facility, injuring at least 62 people, the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, said on Tuesday, according to the German news agency DPA.

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The strike hit a medical facility in Kharkiv's Nemyshlianskyi district. Syniehubov said 226 patients were being evacuated to other medical facilities, Suspilne News reported, and Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said around 1,000 windows were damaged by the explosions at the hospital and in nearby residential buildings, DPA reported.

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The injury toll rose through the morning as rescuers and officials reached the site. Kyiv Post initially reported at least 25 injured in the combined ballistic missile and guided bomb attack; the figure then rose to 62 in Syniehubov's update, and later reports citing regional authorities put the number injured at 73. No deaths in Kharkiv were reported in the accounts available as this story was queued, and the toll was still being updated.

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Kharkiv was not the only target. In Dnipro, Russian forces struck critical infrastructure including a thermal power plant in the city's Samarskyi district, Mayor Borys Filatov reported, and at least 15 people were injured in the strikes there, according to local authorities cited by Kyiv Post.

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Russian strikes also hit energy facilities in seven communities of Zhytomyr region, its head Vitalii Bunechko said, and Ukraine's national grid operator Ukrenergo imposed emergency power cuts in Kyiv, Kyiv region and Dnipropetrovsk region on the morning of November 3, Kyiv Post reported. Explosions were also reported in other cities overnight.

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Kyiv Post reported that Russia deployed Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic bombers to launch cruise missiles, alongside ballistic missiles and attack drones including jet-powered Shahed-type drones. Monitoring channels reported ballistic missile launches at around 3 a.m. toward targets in the Dnipropetrovsk and Vinnytsia regions, as well as Kharkiv and Zmiiv, and a further cruise missile wave headed toward western Ukraine on the morning of November 3.

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The attack President Zelenskyy had warned was coming

The barrage came a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia was preparing a massive attack on Ukraine's energy grid while the world watched the US midterm elections. It also followed Monday's Russian strikes on a school used as a humanitarian aid distribution centre in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, which Ukrainian officials said killed at least 26 people, including civilians collecting aid, two rescuers and four police officers.

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Russia's military had not publicly commented on the Kharkiv medical facility strike in the reports available when this story was queued. Ukrainian officials' casualty and damage figures are attributed above to the officials and outlets that reported them; wartime claims from either side cannot always be independently verified immediately.

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The attack comes a week before US-led peace talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States are due to resume in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11, a schedule announced by US special envoy Steve Witkoff. Ukrainian officials have said their forces face severe shortages of Western-supplied air defence interceptors as Russia has intensified missile and drone attacks this year.

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