Category: World

Russian forces used a fibre-optic FPV drone to assault an armoured automobile belonging to the Ukrainian NGO Proliska within the metropolis of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast on 8 November. Two journalists, one Austrian and one Spanish, had been within the automobile on the time, however nobody was injured.

Supply: Serhii Horbunov, Head of Kostiantynivka Metropolis Navy Administration; Christian Wehrschütz, a journalist from Austrian public broadcaster ORF; Ukrainian volunteer Yevhen Tkachov on Fb

Particulars: Horbunov mentioned the Russians had used a fibre-optic FPV assault drone. There have been no casualties, however Proliska's armoured automobile, which is used to evacuate civilians, was broken.

"Early reviews point out that the strike hit the automobile straight in the midst of a humanitarian mission. There have been humanitarian assist staff inside, however happily they weren’t injured. The automobile sustained vital mechanical harm," Horbunov mentioned.

Austrian journalist Christian Wehrschütz mentioned he had been travelling by Donetsk Oblast with workers from the Ukrainian NGO Proliska and a Spanish journalist. The crew had been planning to movie an evacuation going down in Kostiantynivka.

Ukrainian volunteer Yevhen Tkachov has launched a video of the drone assault. He described the weapon as a fibre-optic FPV drone geared up with an anti-tank cost that penetrated the calmly armoured automobile.

Assist Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!

Russian forces have launched over 210 assaults on thermal energy vegetation belonging to DTEK, the most important personal power firm in Ukraine, for the reason that starting of the full-scale invasion.

Supply: DTEK's press service

Particulars: Russia attacked a DTEK thermal energy plant once more on 8 November.

"Tools has been critically broken. We’re working to cope with the aftermath of the assault," DTEK acknowledged.

Background: On the night time of 7-8 November, the Russian navy carried out its most intensive assault on thermal energy vegetation operated by Centrenergo, a significant Ukrainian state-owned power firm, for the reason that begin of the battle.

Assist Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!

Taras Kachka, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, has stated that the primary purpose Budapest blocks Ukraine's progress in direction of the EU is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's political stance somewhat than points in regards to the Hungarian minority in Ukraine, including that this stance is just not supported in Hungarian society.

Supply: European Pravda, citing Kachka on the Re:Open Zakarpattia discussion board

Particulars: Kachka stated that the Hungarian authorities's calls for on training don’t quantity to a systemic situation.

Quote: "These are a couple of focused proposals and remarks that under no circumstances change our method to training or to our language coverage in training. It’s subsequently straightforward for us to debate them. They don’t roll again our training reform or our language coverage."

Extra particulars: Kachka added that there are not any main issues that might be "inflated into one thing huge", and that the method has "a superbly regular working dynamic".

Quote: "However it’s apparent that there’s a massive political query being set by Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister [of Hungary]. I feel that we should always give attention to him personally and on what he’s declaring in the middle of the parliamentary election marketing campaign in Hungary, specifically that he doesn’t see Ukraine's future within the EU."

Extra particulars: Kachka famous that Orbán's place is a mistake.

Quote: "First, 26 EU member states see it, the European establishments see it and a big a part of Hungarian society sees Ukraine within the European Union. It’s subsequently clear that Prime Minister Orbán's place is improper… Studying the press about how the election marketing campaign goes now in Hungary, we perceive that this doesn’t resonate with Hungarian society."

Extra particulars: Kachka additionally stated that Hungary ought to approve the opening of negotiating clusters and permit Ukraine to satisfy all of the situations, whereas additionally debating the phrases of a future settlement between Ukraine and the EU.

Quote: "If Prime Minister Orbán has options, he’s welcome to desk them. We disagree with them. Nobody agrees with them, but we’re prepared to influence him."

Extra particulars: The Ukrainian deputy prime minister stated he believes will probably be attainable, eventually, to influence Orbán and unblock the negotiating course of.

Quote: "Finally, Ukraine's integration into the European Union is one of the simplest ways to guard the rights and help the event of Hungarian communities in Ukraine, and Budapest understands this."

Background:

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated earlier that Budapest's obstruction of Ukraine's EU path successfully helps Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.
• Orbán in response complained about Zelenskyy's "ingratitude" for Hungary's help.

Learn extra: How disaster is rising inside Orbán's occasion and why the assault on Ukraine did not be its lifeline

Assist Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!

Particulars: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has marked the Day of Ukraine's Air Assault Forces on 8 November 2025 by stressing that their actions have been protecting the Pokrovsk entrance and Donetsk Oblast from Russian occupation.

Supply: Interfax-Ukraine, a Ukrainian information company, citing Zelenskyy at a ceremony awarding air assault forces

Quote: "Due to our Air Assault Forces, the Pokrovsk entrance holds, the Dobropillia operation holds, and our Donetsk Oblast, our Kharkiv Oblast and our southern oblasts maintain. The heroic Kursk operation was additionally made potential by our paratroopers."

Extra particulars: Zelenskyy mentioned that Ukraine's greatest outcomes are unimaginable with out the achievements of the air assault forces.

Background: Zelenskyy reported earlier that 314 Russian troopers are current in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. Ukraine's Air Assault Forces say Russian troops have lowered their exercise within the metropolis as they await reinforcements.

Learn extra: How Pokrovsk is imperceptibly falling: 5 observations by Ukrainska Pravda

Assist Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!

The variety of individuals killed within the Russian strike on the town of Dnipro on the evening of 7-8 November has risen to a few.

Supply: Mayor of Dnipro Borys Filatov

Particulars: Emergency service groups are persevering with the seek for yet one more individual.

Quote: "Once more, as I wrote [earlier] within the evening, till the search and rescue operation is over, sadly, the variety of casualties will rise. Three individuals have been killed, and yet one more can’t be discovered. Additionally, almost certainly, as with constructing 118, we should dismantle two sections."

Background:

• It was reported earlier that 1 individual was killed and 11 injured, together with 2 kids, in a large-scale Russian assault on the town of Dnipro on the evening of 7-8 November.
• A Russian drone strike on a multi-storey residential constructing in Dnipro was additionally reported.

Assist Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!

The Russians launched 503 aerial belongings — 45 missiles and 458 UAVs — in opposition to Ukraine on the night time of 7-8 November. A complete of 26 missiles and 52 drones hit their targets.

Supply: Air Power of Ukraine; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Particulars: In response to the Air Power, 415 aerial belongings had been shot down or suppressed – 406 drones and 9 missiles.

A complete of 26 missiles and 52 assault drones had been recorded hitting 25 areas, with particles falling in 4 areas.

In the meantime, Zelenskyy added that the entire greater than 450 drones had been assault drones.

Assist Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!

13 individuals had been injured and 4 killed in Russian assaults on Donetsk and Kherson oblasts on 7 November.

Supply: Donetsk Oblast Army Administration; Kherson Oblast Army Administration

Particulars: The Russians killed two residents of Donetsk Oblast on 7 November: in Dobropillia and Kostiantynivka.

Three individuals had been injured in Dobropillia, Kostiantynivka and Lyman.

In the meantime, two individuals had been killed and 10 injured in Kherson Oblast on account of Russian aggression.

Russian forces focused essential and social infrastructure in addition to residential areas in Kherson Oblast, damaging 5 high-rise residential buildings and 9 homes.

Help Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!

A ceasefire mediated by the Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA) has begun close to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant (ZNPP) to allow repairs to be carried out to enhance the plant's connection to the ability grid and forestall a nuclear disaster.

Supply: IAEA Director Normal Rafael Grossi

Quote: "Two weeks after off-site energy was efficiently restored to the ZNPP following a one-month outage – additionally made doable by momentary truce preparations negotiated by the IAEA – demining and different preparations obtained below means this morning close to a broken part of the 330-kilovolt (kV) Ferosplavna-1 line, whose connection to the plant was lower six months in the past."

Particulars: Technicians are set to start repairs on Saturday and can join Ferosplavna-1 to the plant within the coming days. This may join the ZNPP with two energy traces, together with one which was repaired in October.

The ZNPP's six reactors are at the moment shut down and haven’t produced electrical energy for greater than three years. Nevertheless, energy continues to be wanted to run the pumps that cool the reactor cores and spent gas, stopping meltdown and the potential launch of radiation.

If there is no such thing as a exterior electrical energy provide, the plant depends on emergency diesel turbines to energy its security programs.

Background: Ukrainian engineers have needed to restore the ZNPP's energy traces 42 instances for the reason that begin of Russia's full-scale invasion.

Assist Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!

Russian forces killed two civilians and injured six in Kherson Oblast on 7 November.

Supply: Kherson Oblast Prosecutor's Workplace

Particulars: Investigators have discovered that Russian troops used artillery, significantly multiple-launch rocket methods, and drones to assault a number of settlements within the oblast. As of 17:30, two civilians are recognized to have been killed and 6 injured because of the strikes.

A Kherson resident sustained deadly accidents in an artillery shelling. One other man was killed in a drone assault within the village of Novovorontsivka.

The Russian strikes injured three residents of Kherson, one individual in Bilozerka and two in Novovorontsivka in the course of the day.

The assaults broken homes, condo blocks, a healthcare facility, garages and autos.

Background: Earlier, Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Navy Administration, reported that at round 09:30 on 7 November, Russian troops attacked the Dniprovskyi district of town of Kherson, killing a 53-year-old man.

Assist Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!

Ukraine has signed a memorandum with the Greek firm Atlantic-see LNG Commerce on common deliveries of US liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) by Greece's gasoline terminals.

Supply: Serhii Koretskyi, CEO of Naftogaz Group, Ukraine's largest nationwide oil and gasoline firm

Quote: "The settlement supplies for normal provides of US gasoline to Ukraine through Greece's gasoline terminals and the Vertical Hall."

Particulars: Koretskyi stated the partnership is predicted to proceed till 2050.

He believes the memorandum will safe secure LNG provides for Ukraine and combine its infrastructure into the European logistics route.

As well as, the association will arrange a sustainable system for the provision and storage of American gasoline.

Background: It was reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy deliberate to ask for gasoline provides and air defence programs throughout his assembly with US President Donald Trump on 17 October.

Help Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!