Russia carried out a drone attack on the city of Dnipro overnight on Nov. 8, injuring at least seven people, including two children, officials reported.

More than 1,400 citizens from three dozen African countries are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, Kyiv's foreign minister said on Friday. Ukrainian officials say Russia has tried to bolster the force attacking its smaller neighbour by recruiting fighters from a variety of countries,

Ukrainian soldiers said the use of medium-range drones has become more common as key targets move farther back.

Russia fired one of its largest drone and missile assaults against Ukraine overnight, killing three people, including a 7-year-old girl, and cutting power to thousands as winter approaches,

"Emergency power outages will be canceled after the situation in the energy system stabilises," Kyiv's energy minister said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has "ordered an investigation into the circumstances that led to the recruitment of these young men into these seemingly mercenary activities," a government spokesman said. The statement did not say which side of the conflict the South Africans were fighting for.

Hungarian President Viktor Orbán got a chuckle out of Donald Trump when he declared it would take a "miracle" for Ukraine to win the war against Russia.

Russian troops attacked energy facilities in the Odesa region with strike drones last night, November 7. Russian strikes caused several fires, according to Odesa regional military administration head Oleh Kiper and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.