Russian drones and forces struck energy facilities across Ukraine on October 30-31, leaving more than 280,000 households without electricity, Ukrainian officials said. About 200,000 households lost power in Dnipro and the wider Dnipropetrovsk region, and more than 80,000 in the Kyiv region, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Zelenskyy said Russian forces hit a combined heat and power plant in Kyiv on Friday night and four electrical substations in the Dnipro region, among other targets. Reporting based on Ukrainian officials also said thermal power plants in Kyiv and Shostka were hit, along with a gas-distribution facility and railway infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk region.

Ukraine's Ukrinform news agency reported that drone impacts were recorded in 20 locations, with debris from downed drones falling in 10 other places. Repair crews are working to restore electricity, Zelenskyy said, as Ukraine enters the heating season with reduced generation capacity.

Russia's Defence Ministry has said its forces struck logistics and energy infrastructure used to support Ukrainian military operations. The available accounts do not establish that the Russian statement covers exactly the same sites Ukraine named in this latest wave, and no casualty figures for the October 30-31 strikes were reported in these accounts.

The new wave follows an earlier round of strikes this week, reported by Awaaz Punjab, in which ballistic attacks left up to 350,000 people without power around Dnipro and killed one person in Kyiv. Zelenskyy used the latest attacks to renew his call for stronger pressure and sanctions on Russia and for faster deliveries of air-defence interceptors.

The strikes came even as a rare local ceasefire around the southern town of Oleshky held, allowing hundreds of evacuees to travel via Belarus toward Ukrainian territory on Saturday.