INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
weeks.Both Kyiv and Moscow have used attack and reconnaissance drones extensively throughout the 21-month war.Ukraine's Air Force said it
Russia in an overnight attack since Sept
30.An energy facility was hit in the southern Odesa region, with the resulting fire quickly extinguished, Ukraine's emergency services
said.Separately, Ukraine's general staff said Saturday that its forces "continue to hold positions on the left (eastern) bank of the Dnipro
River."Ukrainian and Russian forces have been entrenched on opposite sides of the vast waterway in the southern Kherson region for more than
a year, after Russia withdrew its troops from the western bank last November.Ukrainian forces have staged multiple attempts to cross and
defenders are consolidating their positions and firing on the occupiers," the general staff said in a Saturday morning briefing on its
operations on the eastern side of the river.Russia's Defense Ministry also said it shot down a Ukrainian drone over the Bryansk border
region.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he expects Russia to step up its attacks on Ukraine's energy system, in a bid to
cripple the country's heating and electricity supplies through the cold winter months.Last winter, Russian strikes left millions of
Ukrainians without power for hours in sub-zero temperatures.Zelensky told reporters on Thursday that Russia was "accumulating" missiles, and
while Ukraine did not have "100 percent protection" from Russian strikes, he said the country's air defenses were better than last year.
