Russia struck energy and railway infrastructure in eight regions of Ukraine overnight from Saturday to Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, in attacks he said mainly targeted power substations with Shahed-type drones.

Source: Reuters via Statement.com, Nov 15, 2026

The statement is the first detailed damage assessment of the Russian side of the huge overnight drone exchange Awaaz Punjab reported earlier on Sunday, in which Ukraine's Air Force counted 132 Russian drones launched and 106 shot down or jammed, with hits recorded at 20 locations. Zelenskyy's account, and Russia's own confirmation of what it hit, now show where many of those drones were aimed: the power grid and the railways that move Ukraine's freight, troops and exports.

Earlier on Sunday, Awaaz Punjab reported the overnight drone exchange itself — 132 Russian drones against Ukraine and a Ukrainian strike wave that set a fire at the Nizhnekamsk petrochemical hub in Tatarstan. Read: Ukraine downs 106 of 132 Russian drones overnight

Port city of Chornomorsk hit, six injured

A Russian strike on Chornomorsk, a port city in Ukraine's Odesa region, injured six people and damaged energy infrastructure, regional head Oleh Kiper said on Sunday on Telegram. The blast and falling debris also damaged a gas pipeline and nearby residential buildings, and two parked cars caught fire, he said.

Source: Associated Press via EuropeSays, Nov 15, 2026

The strike hit a facility operated by DTEK Odesa Electric Networks, temporarily leaving about 41,000 customers without power, Kiper said. DTEK is Ukraine's largest private energy company. Odesa region's ports are Ukraine's main sea gate for grain and other exports, and its power network has been struck repeatedly in recent days.

What Moscow confirmed it hit

Russia's Defence Ministry confirmed overnight strikes on energy facilities and on port and railway infrastructure in Ukraine, carried out with Geranium-class drones and no missiles, according to its statement reported by the Russian military outlet Topwar. It said two locomotives were destroyed near a railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and an electrical substation in the village of Velyki Mezhirichi in the Rivne region, which it said supplies power to logistics centres, was damaged.

Source: Russian Defence Ministry via Topwar, Nov 15, 2026

The ministry also said the ferry terminal, port administration building and an electrical substation were hit at the port of Chornomorsk, and that strikes hit Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region with drones and guided bombs. It further claimed a seagoing vessel and a bulk carrier bound for Odesa were attacked — a Russian claim that Awaaz Punjab could not independently verify, and which Ukraine had not confirmed.

'Many of these strikes are getting through' — the Starshield warning

"The Russians are targeting substations with 'shaheds'. And many of these strikes are getting through because restrictions on the operating speed of Starshield terminals along the front line and in the temporarily occupied territories are still there," Zelenskyy said, according to Reuters.

Source: Reuters via Devdiscourse syndication, Nov 15, 2026

Ukraine's interceptor drones continue to lose contact with their operators when flying faster than 161 kph (100 mph) along the front line and over Russian-occupied territory, leaving them unable to catch Russian Shahed drones, Zelenskyy said, in the Associated Press report. He said he had instructed the Foreign Ministry, the Defence Ministry and the President's Office to work closely with the American side and SpaceX to get the restrictions lifted: "The protection of lives and Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter depends on this."

Source: Associated Press via EuropeSays, Nov 15, 2026

Zelenskyy questioned whether the problem was technical, saying the restrictions appeared to have been imposed by SpaceX despite earlier assurances from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Starshield was more under U.S. government control, the AP reported. SpaceX had not publicly responded in the reporting seen by Awaaz Punjab. Awaaz Punjab reported on November 12 that the Starshield speed cap had returned; Sunday's statement is the first time Zelenskyy has publicly tied the cap to a specific night of successful strikes on the grid.

A week of bombardment, with winter coming

Russia launched more than 2,300 drones, 1,590 guided aerial bombs and 15 missiles of various types against Ukraine over the past week, Zelenskyy said. Moscow has repeatedly targeted Ukraine's power grid as temperatures fall, and Ukrainian officials warn each successful strike on a substation makes winter blackouts longer and repairs harder.

What happens next turns on two races: Ukrainian repair crews restoring substations and rail lines faster than Russia can strike them again, and Kyiv's diplomatic push in Washington to lift the Starshield speed cap before the coldest months. Ukraine's Air Force tally for the same night — 132 drones, 106 neutralised, hits at 20 locations — was reported by Awaaz Punjab earlier on Sunday; the Zaporizhzhia injuries from that barrage, six people including a two-year-old, were part of that earlier report.