A Russian assault on the northeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv hit a police station, killing a policeman and wounding greater than two dozen different individuals, the pinnacle of Ukraine’s Nationwide Police mentioned on November 1.
“In the present day, the Russian enemy focused a police station within the heart of Kharkiv with 2 missiles, killing a police officer and wounding 26 different law enforcement officials and 4 civilians,” Ivan Vygivskiy, the pinnacle of Ukraine’s Nationwide Police, wrote on Fb.
Dmytro Chubenko, spokesman of the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s workplace, mentioned Russian troops attacked earlier on November 1 with two ballistic missiles, badly damaging two non-public homes and injuring two individuals.
The prosecutor’s workplace mentioned the strike was carried out from the territory of a settlement within the Belgorod area of Russia.
Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Synyehubov mentioned earlier {that a} 75-year-old man was killed and three individuals had been wounded by Russian shelling within the city of Derhachi, simply north of Kharkiv metropolis.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, situated solely about 35 kilometers from the Russian border, has been struck recurrently by Russian drones and missiles lately.
Russian shelling and drone strikes additionally killed one individual and wounded 13 others, and a number of other homes and a college had been destroyed within the southern area of Kherson, the place Russian forces shelled 19 settlements, cities, and cities over the previous 24 hours, regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported on November 1.
Russian forces have been recurrently attacking the a part of the Kherson area that was recaptured by Ukrainian forces, bombarding it from throughout the Dnieper River, the place they retreated in November 2022 within the face of the Ukrainian advance.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on November 1 took to social media to thank Ukrainians and particularly emergency employees and first responders for his or her unity and spirit of sacrifice.
“After Russian strikes and shelling, and amid the emergency and significant conditions the enemy creates towards our nation, our individuals can all the time rely on assist, irrespective of the circumstances,” Zelenskiy wrote on X.
“I’m grateful to every one among you who arrive on the scene after Russian assaults in all our areas, clear the rubble, extinguish fires, present first assist, and — above all — make sure the rescue of our individuals.
“The State Emergency Service, police, medical professionals, volunteers, and everybody concerned in saving lives — Ukraine is happy with you,” Zelenskiy wrote.
Within the Black Sea port of Odesa, a Russian missile struck a hearth station, wounding two firefighters, regional Governor Oleh Kiper reported.
In the meantime, Ukraine’s air power mentioned its defenses shot down 31 Russian drones and one missile over 9 areas — Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsya, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskiy, Sumy, Chernihiv and Poltava.
In Russia, the Protection Ministry mentioned its defenses shot down 83 Ukrainian drones over six areas early on November 1.
“36 drones had been shot down over the Kursk area, 20 over the Bryansk area, 12 over Crimea, eight over the Voronezh area, 4 over the Oryol area, and three over the Belgorod area,” the ministry mentioned in a press release on its Telegram channel.
Individually, Aleksandr Bogomaz, the governor of Bryansk, mentioned one individual was wounded when a Ukrainian drone crashed into an house constructing within the metropolis of Bryansk.
Within the Stavropol area, a drone fell on an oil depot within the metropolis of Svetlograd, regional Governor Vladimir Vladimirov mentioned on Telegram.
After struggling quite a few assaults on its civilian and power infrastructure, Ukraine has in current months began putting Russian targets — primarily gasoline and oil depots utilized by the army — with its personal drones.