Kyiv faces Russian missile barrage, Naftogaz facilities damaged

Olesia Safronova, Bloomberg News on Nov 7, 2026

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Ukraine’s capital and the region surrounding Kyiv faced another Russian missile barrage overnight targeting energy facilities and bridges, with at least one civilian killed and several injured.

The state-run oil and gas company Naftogaz said a facility in central Ukraine has been struck three times overnight. “The attack damaged equipment, and a large-scale fire broke out,” Naftogaz said in a statement on Telegram.

Separately, Ukraine struck the Saratov oil refinery in the Volga region of southwestern Russia, according to a person familiar who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. Ukraine has stepped up its strikes on Russian oil facilities since Oct. 30 after a lull of about two weeks.

The Saratov facility, with a processing capacity of about 140,000 barrels of crude a day, has been repeatedly targeted by Ukraine and has halted operations several times after previous strikes. The Saratov region’s governor confirmed a overnight attack but didn’t confirm a strike on the refinery.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of the pending attack on Kyiv in his regular address to the nation on Friday night, citing intelligence reports, and reiterated that protection from airstrikes was “not easy” amid an ongoing deficit of interceptors.

The overnight strikes followed Russian attacks across at least nine regions of Ukraine on Tuesday, as well as an attack on a humanitarian aid center a day earlier that killed at least 53 people — days before officials from the U.S., Russia and Ukraine are expected to meet for new talks.

Kremlin forces fired 36 ballistic missiles and 172 strike drones overnight, Zelenskyy said Saturday on social media. Four missiles and 149 drones were successfully shot down, Ukraine’s air force said.

“Energy facilities in the Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions have been damaged,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. “The energy supply in the capital is extremely difficult and this also affected the operation of the city’s heating and water supply systems.”

Klitschko posted a video of Kyiv’s Northern Bridge, the city’s main conduit across the Dnipro River, which was also hit and was closed to traffic as of Saturday morning.

Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said scheduled hourly power outages remain in effect across most regions, while industrial consumers are subject to power consumption limits. “Energy crews are operating in an intensified mode; however, their work is being delayed by frequent air raid alerts. But as soon as the all-clear sounds, power engineers immediately return to repairing damaged equipment,” the ministry said on Telegram.

In a statement, Russia’s Defense Ministry said the Northern Bridge was targeted “because it was used to transfer weapons, military and special-purpose equipment for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”

Separately, Ukraine claimed an airstrike in Russia’s Oryol region, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) northeast of Kyiv. Russian authorities haven’t commented.

Kyiv’s forces struck the JSC “Proton-Electrotex” defense industry facility in the Oryol region with a Neptune cruise missile, the country’s General Staff said on Telegram. “A hit was confirmed, and a fire broke out at the site,” the General Staff said. “The damage is currently being assessed.”

The U.S. is expected to meet with delegations from Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi from Tuesday in the latest bid to find a resolution to the war in Ukraine, which is fast approaching the end of its fifth year.

Zelenskyy told local media this week that Ukraine needs to “move toward a new political infrastructure” in the U.S. after Democrats won congressional majorities in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

“We are counting on the U.S. Congress to give more attention to Ukraine, because Russia keeps increasing the number of its attacks,” Zelenskyy said on Saturday. “It is important that support for Ukraine remains among the priorities of U.S. policy.”