Russia Kills 6 in Overnight Bombing; ‘Let Them Fight it out,’ Says Trump

Overnight on November 8, 2025, the Russians launched another massive strike by missiles and drones against central and eastern Ukraine, killing 6, and injuring at least 26, according to a wide range of Ukrainian and Western news media.

The Ukrainian Air Force said in a Telegram post Saturday morning, November 8, that Moscow had launched 503 projectiles – 458 drones and 45 missiles – of which 415 were shot down while the remaining 78 struck 25 different locations across Ukraine. While this wasn’t a record number, it was deadly and destructive.

If you follow the war against Ukraine on social media, newspapers or television, you were almost as shocked as were local Ukrainians to see the gaping hole there once were the fifth and sixth floors of an apartment building in Dnipro, where regular people lived.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said in a Telegram post Saturday morning that the targets of the latest Russian strikes “remain the same: ordinary life, residential buildings, our energy system, and infrastructure.”

The irony of this deadly strike is that President Donald Trump cold heartedly quipped on November 3 in reply to a reporter’s question en route in Air Force 1 that in his opinion sometimes two sides just have to fight it out. “There’s no final straw. Sometimes you have to let them fight it out. It’s been a tough war for Putin... and it’s been a tough war for Ukraine,” he said. He later reiterated the point, saying the need for the two nations to take ownership of the war’s resolution. “Sometimes you have to let it just get fought out” – while he, Putin and other world leaders stand on the sidelines and watch the bloodshed.

While Trump never showed any interest in mediating an end to this war, which he really doesn’t understand or care about, his flippant observation about the life and death of innocent Ukrainians, who are regularly pitilessly and maliciously targeted for death by Moscow, is incomprehensible. He has stubbornly resisted learning why Russia has habitually invaded Ukraine for centuries while Ukraine has never invaded Russia. This alone should have given him an idea upon which to ponder. Why? Because Russia really has hated Ukraine, has believed it is its master, and seeks to permanently imprison it and its people in a renewed Russian prison of nations. An antiquated explanation, you say? Look at the centuries of wars and bloodshed between Russians and Ukrainians. Read the news.

The city of Dnipro, a city on the river that bears it name in central Ukraine, was hit hard, with three people killed and another 11 injured there, according to the regional military administration, which said children were among the casualties. A drone struck an apartment building in the city. Three more were injured in the nearby Samarskyi district of the wider Dnipropetrovsk region, authorities said.

In the Kharkiv region, at least one person was killed in the village of Rokytne; eight others were injured in the suburbs of Kharkiv city; one person was injured in nearby Chuhuyiv; and another was injured in the village of Hrushivka, according to the regional military administration. The mayor of Kharkiv said in a Telegram post Saturday morning that the city is facing a significant electricity shortage.

Additionally, one person was injured in the Poltava region in the east and another person was injured in the neighboring Kyiv region, according to the respective regional military administrations. The strikes on the Poltava region targeted energy infrastructure facilities, cutting off electricity, water and heating to some communities, authorities said. Actually, in addition to targeting civilians, the Kremlin is also striking the electrical infrastructure ahead of winter.

The Russian strikes mark the ninth large-scale attack on Ukraine’s gas infrastructure since the start of October, according to Ukrainian state-run energy firm Naftogaz, which in a Telegram post Saturday morning accused Russian of deliberately “targeting enterprises that provide Ukrainians with gas and heat” during the winter months. Ukrainian people are being forced to evade Russian missiles and drones as well as tolerate the region’s frigid winters.

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed in a Telegram post Saturday morning that it had targeted Ukrainian military and energy infrastructure in an overnight attack. The strike was carried out in response to “Ukraine’s terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Russia,” according to the Russian defense ministry. Moscow did not address its invasion of Ukraine which preceded the latest full-scale war, during which the Russians said they were looking for Nazis in Ukraine.

On that flight abroad Air Force One, Trump also indicated he’s not in a hurry to give Ukraine American Tomahawk rockets. While he understands their value to Ukraine’s war effort and that they can shorten Russia’s war, which has claimed so many civilian lives and military personnel, he doesn’t want to approve their use by Kyiv. He is willing to indifferently watch Russia and Ukraine fight it out.