Russia's Ministry of Defence said its armed forces carried out a massed overnight strike with high-precision ground-launched weapons, according to a post on its Telegram channel on 12 November 1. The claims have not been independently verified.
The ministry's account, as summarised in reporting on the event, named a drone-related plant in Kyiv, sites in Brovary, Kuzmintsy and Yahotyn, and electrical substations in Zhytomyr, including 330 kV and 110 kV facilities. It also said a cargo ship bound for Odesa and carrying supplies for the Ukrainian military was hit 1. The excerpt of the ministry post available does not itself list these locations, and no independent confirmation of the ship claim or the named sites was found.
Separately, the news channel NEXTA said on Telegram that a Russian drone struck a residential multi-storey building in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district and that a woman was killed 2. This is the only report of a death found, and it comes from a single post. Ukrainian officials' accounts were not available in the material reviewed.
The two accounts differ in emphasis: the Russian ministry described military-industrial and energy targets, while NEXTA reported damage to a residential building 12. The material does not establish whether the two reports describe the same attack in the city.
The strike came amid a run of attacks in recent days. A Ukrainian Air Force warning of a ballistic missile threat over central Ukraine was reported late on 11 November. Earlier that day, reports said a Russian overnight missile and drone attack had killed nine people and injured 39 across Ukraine, though that figure was unconfirmed. Another report said 144 targets had been downed. Drone attacks on the Ust-Luga terminal in Leningrad region and an Omsk refinery were also reported in the same period.