Russian jet drones damage energy grid, wound three in Vinnytsia Oblast
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Russia launched drone attack on Vinnytsia (Photo: Reuters / Stringer)
Russian jet-powered drones damaged energy facilities and wounded three civilians across Vinnytsia Oblast in a daylight raid, governor Natalya Zabolotna reported on Nov. 5.
12:38 p.m. (Updated) — Mayor Serhii Morhunov confirmed an aerial strike within a neighboring territorial municipality directly adjacent to the city of Vinnytsia, noting that the impact ignited an intense localized fire.
12:24 p.m. (Updated) — Natalya Zabolotna stated that incoming strikes damaged civilian and critical infrastructure across several municipal communities. Three civilians sustained confirmed injuries, all classified as minor trauma.
In one regional town, falling munitions and fire engulfed two cargo trucks and a trailer, with emergency rescue crews subsequently containing and extinguishing the blaze. At a separate site, an open fire consumed 11 motor vehicles, completely destroying four and leaving seven heavily damaged. Following the all-clear siren, emergency utility crews immediately deployed to assess strike damage and begin grid repair operations across impacted energy facilities.
During the raid, the Air Force Command tracked and warned of high-speed jet drone vectors traversing the oblast toward Vinnytsia, as well as suburban flight paths over Nemyriv, Voronovytsia, Pishchanka, and Vapnyarka.
The daylight strike marks the second major assault on the region's energy hub this week. On Nov. 1, Russian forces staged an expansive combined attack against Vinnytsia Oblast, striking power infrastructure installations, severing a mobile cellular communications tower, setting a private commercial warehouse ablaze, shattering windows across multi-story apartment buildings, and damaging a public transit shelter and a passenger car in Vinnytsia.
The afternoon raid follows an intensive overnight assault into Nov. 5, during which Russian forces launched two Kh-35 guided cruise missiles from the Black Sea along with 128 Shahed-type strike drones — including 65 turbojet-powered models — alongside Gerbera drones and Parodiya radar decoys. Ukrainian air defense forces intercepted or suppressed 105 unmanned aerial vehicles nationwide by 8:00 a.m., including 48 turbojet-powered airframes.
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