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Massive Russian Barrage Batters Ukraine’s Power Grid, Leaves Six Dead and Triggers Outages

Officials describe a strategy to cripple energy supplies to break civilian morale through winter.

Overview

  • President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the overnight assault involved roughly 430 drones and 18 rockets, with Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa among the targets.
  • At least six people were killed nationwide, including four in Kyiv, where dozens of residential buildings were damaged and debris struck the Azerbaijani embassy.
  • Ukraine’s Energy Ministry reported fresh power cuts in parts of the Kyiv, Odesa and Donetsk regions after strikes on energy facilities.
  • Regular planned blackouts of up to 16 hours per day have followed a major weekend barrage that briefly left much of the country without electricity.
  • Ukraine reported a retaliatory strike on a Russian oil terminal in Novorossiysk as the EU worked on a new sanctions package and Germany warned the attacks aim to break public morale.