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Donald Trump has poured cold water on hopes he would provide Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles – while making new comments that will be the source of concern in Kyiv. Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine have traded strikes on each other’s energy sites as winter approaches. Follow the latest:
Video ‘shows aftermath’ of Ukrainian attack on Russian oil facility
Footage posted online purportedly shows a fire at Russia’s Saratov oil refinery after Ukrainian forces attacked overnight (see 9.09 post).
⚡️⚡️⚡️BREAKING: Ukraine's drones SLAMMED Russia's Saratov oil refinery—again! 💥 Flames erupt near the AVT-6 unit (primary oil processing heart), hitting one of Putin's oldest cash cows (7M tons/year capacity). Multiple strikes confirmed, partial shutdowns looming. Approximate… pic.twitter.com/b3g3xCO3Ti
— Kyrylo Shevchenko (@KShevchenkoReal) November 3, 2025
Russian drones kill man and injure his family in overnight attacks
Russian drones killed a man and injured five of his family members, including two children, in overnight attacks.
Russia launched 12 missiles of various types and 138 strike and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight from Sunday to Monday, Ukraine’s air force said
On some nights, it has fired many hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine.
In Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, Russian drones hit a house where they killed a man and injured five members of his family, authorities said. Two women were also injured in a separate Sumy attack.
“The Russians cynically targeted people — deliberately, at night, while they were sleeping,” regional head Oleh Hryhorov wrote on Telegram in response to the attacks.
Russian missiles started a fire at a business in the central Dnipro region, injuring one man, regional head Vladyslav Haivanenko said.
Russian drones have also struck energy infrastructure in the southern Mykolaiv region.
Ukraine receives more Patriot air defence systems
Ukraine has received more American-made Patriot air defence systems to help it counter Russia’s daily barrages, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
Russia’s relentless pounding of urban areas behind the front line following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago has killed thousands of civilians. It has also targeted the energy supply to deny civilians heat and running water in winter, as well as disrupt industrial production of Ukraine’s newly developed drones and missiles.
The sophisticated Patriot systems are the most effective weapon against Russian missiles. Zelenskyy has pleaded with Western partners to provide more of them, but production limitations and the need to maintain stockpiles have slowed their delivery.
“More Patriots are now in Ukraine and being put into operation,” the Ukrainian president said.
“Of course, more systems are needed to protect key infrastructure sites and our cities across the entire territory of our state.”
He thanked Germany and its Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the Patriots.
Germany said three months ago it would deliver two more Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine. It agreed to the move after securing assurances that the US would prioritize the delivery of new Patriots to Germany to backfill its stocks. Patriot systems are made only in the US
NATO is coordinating regular deliveries of large weapons packages to Ukraine.
European allies and Canada are buying much of the equipment from the United States, which has greater stocks of ready military materiel, and more effective weapons. The Trump administration is not giving any arms to Ukraine, unlike the previous Biden administration…
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