Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least seven civilians and injured 80 others over the past day, regional authorities reported on Saturday, November 14, with the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia the worst hit.
Source: The Kyiv Independent
In Zaporizhzhia oblast, Russian attacks killed three people, including a child, and injured 62 others, including eight children, Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
Source: Antikor, citing Governor Ivan Fedorov
In one attack, Russia launched 10 missiles at the city of Zaporizhzhia, striking a multi-storey residential building and injuring 29 people, the Kyiv Independent reported.
Source: The Kyiv Independent
Fedorov said Russian forces carried out 40 air strikes on Zaporizhzhia and settlements across the region during the day, attacking with 661 drones of various types, mainly FPV drones. In total, 48 settlements in the region came under fire, and authorities received 554 reports of damage.
Source: Antikor, citing Governor Ivan Fedorov
The new oblast toll follows Friday's strike on two five-storey apartment blocks in Zaporizhzhia's Kosmichnyi district, first reported at 30 wounded. Ukrinform later put that strike's injured at 50, including eight children, and Interfax-Ukraine reported that a rescue worker was killed by a falling concrete slab while clearing the damaged building. Read the earlier report: Ukraine fires nearly 1,200 drones at Russia; Zaporizhzhia strike wounds 30
Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 96 strike drones overnight from Friday evening, and that 81 of them were shot down or electronically suppressed as of early Saturday, including 52 jet-powered drones. An explosion was heard in central Kyiv on Saturday morning, Kyiv Independent staff reported.
Source: The Kyiv Independent
The same Air Force figures were carried independently in Al Jazeera's reporting syndicated on Saturday, which said Russia launched 96 drones from Friday evening, of which 81 were shot down or electronically suppressed as of early Saturday.
Source: Al Jazeera via Barbados Gazette
Elsewhere, regional authorities said one person was killed in Donetsk oblast in strikes with guided bombs and drones; two people were killed and five injured in Kherson oblast, where critical infrastructure was targeted; one person was killed and three injured in Kharkiv oblast; seven people were injured in Sumy oblast, including a nine-year-old boy, in more than 40 attacks; two people were injured in Dnipropetrovsk oblast; and one person was injured in Chernihiv oblast, where residential and agricultural facilities were damaged.
Source: The Kyiv Independent
Toll mounts as peace talks turn to territory
The latest toll comes a day after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said US negotiators in Abu Dhabi had asked, for the first time, whether Ukraine would withdraw its troops from Donbas in exchange for joining NATO — an idea Kyiv says could only be put to a referendum alongside firm security guarantees. Read: US asked if Ukraine would trade Donbas for a NATO seat, Zelenskiy says
All of the casualty figures in this report come from Ukrainian regional authorities and Ukraine's Air Force. Russia has not commented on this specific toll, and the figures could not be independently verified in full. Ukraine has been defending itself, with Western assistance, against Russia's full-scale invasion since February 2022.
The front-line oblast lies within range of Russian missiles, guided bombs and FPV drones, and its capital has been struck repeatedly this month — including Friday's apartment-block strike, first reported at 30 wounded and later put at 50 injured, whose aftermath is still being cleared.