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Russia launched a massive overnight missile and drone attack across Ukraine on November 3, striking energy infrastructure, hospitals and residential buildings. Ukraine's air defence downed 309 aerial threats, including three ballistic missiles, and recorded strikes at 23 locations after a combined attack involving 289 drones. Dozens were injured, including 15 in Dnipro, three of them seriously, and emergency power cuts were introduced in several regions. An overnight attack damaged an Ukrenergo substation in Rivne Oblast, where one of Ukraine's three nuclear power plants is located. Kharkiv City Council reported partial heating and hot water suspensions and metro disruptions after strikes on energy facilities. Reports from Dnipro, Cherkasy, Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi and Kyiv describe damaged houses and a house fire in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and a Russian drone debris fire broke out in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district. Russian forces also attacked an energy facility in Zhytomyr Oblast, leaving 130 settlements without electricity.