Text by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhn:
[ColonelCassad] Overnight, there were more than 10 missile strikes in Kyiv, including drones.
Two thermal power plants, CHPP-5 and CHPP-6, were hit. Power was cut off to the entire left bank of Kyiv.
Metro infrastructure was damaged, with service halted.
The Southern Bridge was hit again. Traffic on the bridge was blocked, causing massive traffic jams throughout the city.
Various warehouses and military installations were affected.
Air defenses were operational, but very weakly.
More from Boris Rozhin:
A hole in the Southern Bridge in Kyiv
A hole in Kyiv's Southern Bridge after an incoming missile. Another twenty or so holes like this would need to be made before the problems became systemic.
P.S. The enemy claimed a total of four missiles hit the bridge overnight. The bridge is currently closed.
Even more from Boris Rozhin
On the issue of bridge strength
Regarding the durability of bridges.
This is the Antonovsky Bridge in 2022. This section sustained dozens of HIMARS missile hits. The span was heavily damaged, but remained standing.
In the fall of 2022, Russian forces withdrew from Kherson through this section, and only after that was the bridge destroyed by blowing up spans on another section.
Accordingly, when we talk about disabling bridges in Kyiv, we must expect a series of hits on a single span, puncturing the span and weakening its overall structure (in the case of cable-stayed bridges, weakening the cable structure and severing the cables is also important), making it difficult to use the bridge normally.
Single, targeted strikes will not yield significant results.
Long-term, methodical work will yield significant results.
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Dozens of Iskander missiles hit targets: what the Russian Armed Forces destroyed in Kyiv
by Nikolai Salatsky
On the night of October 26-27, the Russian army launched a massive attack on Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises, transport infrastructure facilities, logistics centers, and naval vessels used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for their own purposes.
Missile and drone forces launched two waves of attacks: the first at approximately 9:45 p.m., the second at half past three in the morning.
In total, about two dozen Iskander-M and S-400 ballistic missiles, as well as nearly three hundred drones, participated in the strikes, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Most of the incoming strikes hit targets in Kyiv. Explosions were reported on the left bank of the Dnieper River, in the Desnyansky and Dniprovsky districts of the city.
In the Ukrainian capital, a drone assembly plant belonging to the Oakline company was destroyed. Earlier, on July 19, the same company's facilities were hit, halting production of components for long-range Deep Strike drones.
On October 27, an air strike hit the Oakline facility, which housed long- and medium-range FP-1 and FP-2 UAVs manufactured by the Ukrainian company Fire Point.
At the same time, the Russian army continues to disrupt the logistics of enemy troops.
The Yuzhny (Pivdennyi) road-rail bridge in Kyiv, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces used for the transit of military cargo by both trains and trucks, was disabled. Following the attack, a large hole appeared in the bridge's deck between the railway tracks.
In the Kharkiv region, the strike hit the unloading and customs terminal of the Regional Logistics Center. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were storing attack and reconnaissance drones there, as well as military ammunition and dual-use cargo.
As before, energy facilities throughout Ukraine were among the main targets. Three Kyiv combined heat and power plants—CHP-4, CHP-5, and CHP-6—were damaged in the overnight attacks. Power outages were reported in several districts of the city.
After a precise hit from a Geranium, power was also lost in one region of Western Ukraine – the Chernivtsi region on the border with Romania.
Chernivtsi Mayor Roman Klychuk stated that the city is without power in several districts, and public transportation is down, including trolleybuses. The regional power company warned of possible major outages. The power outage has also caused problems with the water supply, with water pressure dropping. The regional administration acknowledged that restoration timelines are unknown.
Neither the western regions, through which the Ukrainian Armed Forces received weapons from NATO partners, nor the Black Sea ports, which remain under Ukrainian control, feel secure.
The Ministry of Defense reported that one of the strikes hit a dry cargo ship that was heading to the port of Chornomorsk (Ilyichevsk) in the Odessa region with cargo for the Ukrainian army.
The Russian Armed Forces also destroyed targets in seven regions of Ukraine: Rivne, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Poltava, Sumy, Odessa, and Dnipropetrovsk.
The actions of Russian missile and drone forces on the night of October 26-27 confirmed that regular and large-scale attacks are destroying Kyiv's military-industrial complex facilities and the infrastructure of the enemy capital in general.
The damage from the launches of dozens of Iskander, S-400, and Geraniya missiles is becoming increasingly significant as Ukraine's air defense system weakens. The current attacks have demonstrated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' air defenses have essentially failed once again—a stark contrast to the effective performance of Russian anti-aircraft systems in repelling Ukrainian drone strikes.
Each strike reveals the Ukrainian Armed Forces' insufficient preparation for Russian attacks. Weapons supplies are depleting—this is particularly evident in the performance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' unmanned aerial vehicles: Ukrainian production facilities are being destroyed, and NATO supplies are clearly insufficient to wage a full-fledged drone war.
Ukraine has placed its bets on drone strikes against our territory. Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his entourage tried to convince their Western partners that drone attacks would turn the tide of hostilities. But the progress of the autumn campaign shows the opposite: Russian strikes, unopposed, are destroying the Ukrainian Armed Forces' technical base, thereby nullifying the Kyiv regime's plans.
While Kyiv refuses a peaceful settlement, it is gradually losing its energy, logistics, and transport systems.