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Russian Barrage Hits Ukraine’s Energy and Rail Networks, Killing Five as Poland Puts Air Defenses on Alert

Ukraine says mass strikes aim to cripple power grids before winter.

Overview

  • Four people were killed in Lviv and six injured after strikes ignited an industrial site and hit a residential area, regional officials said.
  • In Zaporizhzhia, one person died and 10 were wounded, with an electrical facility damaged that left about 73,000 customers without power.
  • A separate assault cut electricity to roughly 50,000 households in Chernihiv region as outages and service delays were reported in multiple cities, including Lviv.
  • A drone attack on Chostka station in Sumy killed at least one person and wounded about 30, as rail chiefs reported 40 major strikes on the network since August.
  • Zelensky said the latest barrage involved more than 50 missiles and about 500 attack drones, Poland put aircraft and ground defenses on alert, and Ukraine claimed a hit on a major oil refinery in Russia’s Leningrad region.