Russian strike hits Odesa infrastructure, killing three

Three people died and one was hurt when Russian forces struck an infrastructure facility in Odesa, according to Serhiy Lysak, who heads the city's military administration. The wounded person was in critical condition and receiving medical care, he said Monday. Damage was reported at the site of the strike.

The toll emerged in stages. Lysak's first update of the morning said the night had passed without any attacks, and only a later statement confirmed the hit on the infrastructure target. The deaths were disclosed after that.

Moscow and Kyiv spent the same day counting drones. Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses took down 430 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs overnight, covering the window from 8:00 pm Moscow time on November 8 to 8:00 am on November 9, with interceptions reported over Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Oryol, Pskov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula, the Moscow region and Crimea. Ukraine's Air Force countered that Russia sent 317 drone airstrikes overnight from the Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, Shatalovo, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk directions, along with occupied Donetsk and the Chauda and Gvardiyske areas of occupied Crimea, and that Ukrainian aviation, missile troops, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups shot down or suppressed 271 of them.

The Russian ministry also claimed Ukrainian forces lost more than 535 soldiers in 24 hours, with over 335 killed in clashes against its Center group of forces and another 200-plus against its East group, which it said improved its tactical positions. It added that two US-made HIMARS rockets and 680 Ukrainian drones were intercepted, and that Geran drones struck a 330-kilovolt electrical substation.

Diplomacy moved alongside the fighting. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he spoke with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen about further EU assistance, noting Brussels had previously agreed to trigger a special emergency mechanism to fund critical aid. He said they also discussed Ukraine's upcoming trilateral meeting with Russia and the United States and that positions were coordinated.