Missiles target Kyiv and wound 5 as Ukraine prepares for talks with
Russia and the US
[November 07, 2026]
By DEREK GATOPOULOS
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Missile explosions struck across Ukraine Saturday,
wounding at least nine people, as Kyiv and Moscow prepared for new talks
next week with the United States.
Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. are to meet on Tuesday in
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, for talks aimed at
ending the war. The new round of negotiations would be the fourth
brokered by the Trump administration, the most recent having been in
Geneva in February.
Western governments backing the peace initiative are seeking a new
formula to break the impasse while acknowledging that territorial and
security questions remain unresolved.
The Russian missiles that hit the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight
damaged homes and commercial properties, triggering new power and water
outages, national and city authorities said.
Strikes also prompted officials to close Kyiv's Northern Bridge, a major
route that allows commuter traffic in the capital to cross the Dnipro
River.
“As a result of the enemy’s night attack, energy facilities in the Kyiv
and ... Zhytomyr regions were damaged,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko
said. “The situation with the capital’s energy supply is extremely
difficult, affecting the city’s heating and water supply systems.”
In a statement Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said
Russia was preparing for trilateral talks by “launching ballistic
missiles at Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.”
The Ukrainian leader said that Russia fired 36 ballistic missiles at
Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight. The barrage also involved 172
drones over Kyiv and 12 other regions, wounding nine people, including a
child, he said.
“When Russia tries to plunge Kyiv — a city of millions — and the entire
country into a blackout, Ukraine must not be left to face this alone,”
Zelenskyy said. He urged greater US support and attention from Congress,
calling for bipartisan backing for Ukraine and stronger sanctions on
Russia.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense confirmed Saturday that it had targeted the
Northern Bridge, saying that it facilitated the transport of weaponry,
military hardware and specialist equipment for Ukraine’s armed forces.
It also said that it had targeted an industrial facility in the capital
producing Flamingo missiles, as well as a power station, an electrical
substation, and a plant producing ammunition, explosives and gunpowder
in the wider Kyiv region. It also confirmed striking an electrical
substation in the Zhytomyr region.
Death toll rises to 55 after aid center strike in Komyshuvakha
Meanwhile, in southern Ukraine, a recovery operation continued into its
sixth day in the village of Komyshuvakha, devastated on Monday when
multiple Russian guided bombs slammed into a former school and nearby
shelter as residents waited for humanitarian aid.
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Rescue workers clear rubble to recover bodies from an underground
school destroyed in a Russian airstrike in Komyshuvakha,
Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy
Maloletka)
Emergency services said they had recovered nine more bodies in the
previous 24 hours, bringing the death toll early Saturday morning to
55. Dozens of people remain missing.
Village resident Mykola Krasnov, 72, said he was still looking for
his wife but had heard no word from rescuers.
“She went to get humanitarian aid, and a three-ton bomb was dropped
there. Where is she?” he said. “She didn’t come home, and they
didn’t find her body there. She isn’t in the morgue, and she isn’t
here alive.”
The village of Komyshuvakha is located near the front line in the
Zaporizhzhia region.
1 dead in Ukrainian attack on Russia's Belgorod region
A Ukrainian attack killed one person in Russia’s Belgorod region
when a drone hit a private home in the town of Grayvoron, local
officials said Saturday.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Saturday that its forces shot down
411 Ukrainian drones overnight over 10 Russian regions, including
Belgorod. Drones were also destroyed over the annexed Ukrainian
peninsula of Crimea and the Black and Azov Seas, it said.
The head of Russia’s southwestern Saratov region, Gov. Roman
Busargin, wrote on social media that a drone attack damaged
“civilian infrastructure” and several residential buildings in the
area. Russian media outlets later reported that the Saratov Oil
Refinery had been hit and shared images of plumes of smoke over the
city.
The head of Russia’s Oryol region, Gov. Andrey Klychkov, also said
Saturday that a Ukrainian attack had damaged commercial warehouse
and production sites in the regional capital, as cited by state
media.
Russian media outlets reported that a Ukrainian attack sparked a
blaze at Oryol’s Proton-Electrotex plant, which produces components
for military equipment.
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Associated Press writers Vasilisa Stepanenko in Komyshuvakha,
Ukraine, and Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, contributed
to this report.
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