A large Ukrainian attack drone raid was under way deep inside western Russia overnight into 3 November, according to the open-source intelligence account @Osinttechnical. The account cited local reports of hundreds of drones moving toward Russian targets 1.
A second account, @TextPingAI, posted a near-identical message. It added that the drones were going after oil installations 2. Its wording closely matches the first post, so it appears to repeat the same information rather than confirm it independently.
Neither post named the regions involved, the facilities said to be targeted, or the local sources behind the reports 12. The number of drones has not been independently verified. No casualties or damage were reported. At the time of writing there was no public response from Russia's Defence Ministry, Russian regional governors, or Ukraine's General Staff about a raid of this size 12.
Other accounts circulating online said Ukraine had struck Russian oil facilities on each of the four previous nights. That claim has not been confirmed by officials or independent outlets.
The posts' reference to oil installations 2 matches a pattern of Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries, fuel depots and other energy sites in recent years. In past attacks, Russia's Defence Ministry has usually published regional counts of drones it says it shot down, and Ukraine's General Staff has often confirmed hits on specific facilities later. The two sides' figures have frequently differed. Separately, Ukrainian forces were reported to have attacked the oil refinery in Yaroslavl in the early hours of 3 November. It is not clear whether that strike was part of the wider raid described online.
The reported raid 1 came during a night of heavy strikes in both directions. In Ukraine, a large Russian drone and missile attack was reported against energy infrastructure, including the Ladyzhyn thermal power plant in Vinnytsia region. Ballistic missile strikes were reported on Dnipro, and a Russian missile strike on a medical facility in Kharkiv was reported to have injured 25 people.
It remains unclear how many drones were actually launched, which Russian regions and facilities they targeted, and whether any of them reached their targets 12. Neither Moscow nor Kyiv had commented on the specific reports of hundreds of drones.