Russia bombed a hospital in Kharkiv during Monday night’s bombardment, injuring at least 73 people, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He said on X that the attack struck a city clinical hospital and damaged the cardiology department, where people were receiving treatment.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov confirmed on Telegram that the hospital sustained heavy damage, with more than 1,000 windows shattered. Russia also carried out several attacks on energy infrastructure across multiple Ukrainian regions in the same period.
Energy sites hit across several Ukrainian regions
Zelenskyy described the energy strikes as a “complex, massive attack” and said the main target was power generation facilities and substations. He listed the affected regions as Odesa, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv and Rivne.
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He said Russia had launched 289 attack drones overnight, along with 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles. The strikes came a day after at least 29 people were killed in a Russian strike on an aid distribution centre.
The Russian Ministry of Defence said it had targeted electricity facilities in the Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions. According to the ministry, those sites supplied power to the Ukrainian army and military factories.
Governor Vitalii Bunechko said more than 180,000 people were without power in the Zhytomyr region on Tuesday morning after Russian attacks. Odesa has introduced scheduled power outages in response.
Separately, Governor Mikhail Yevrayev said two employees at a Russian oil refinery in Yaroslavl were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack that caused a fire at the site.
US seeks talks as midterm elections loom
The latest attacks come as the United States steps up efforts to end the war. US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said in a post on X late on Monday that a meeting of US, Russian and Ukrainian officials in Abu Dhabi next week would focus on post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian efforts and next steps toward peace.
Witkoff added that US negotiators would meet representatives from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union and NATO in Brussels this week. He said those talks would cover security guarantees for Ukraine, Europe’s post-war security architecture and economic opportunities to support Ukraine’s reconstruction.
Global attention is also on Tuesday’s midterm elections in the United States. Reporting from Kyiv, correspondent Audrey MacAlpine said they were arguably the most important elections in recent years for Ukrainians.
MacAlpine said that since the Trump administration took office and Republicans gained control of the House and Senate, there had been no significant US military aid packages for Ukraine. She compared this with the early years of the war under Biden, when she said Ukraine could expect around $60b in military aid. She added that Europe had largely filled the gap, but Kyiv would like US aid to resume, a goal that has been at the top of Zelenskyy’s agenda for more than six months.
