Overview
- Local reports say the Oct. 30 shelling hit the Sloviansk thermal power plant, killing two employees and injuring at least five.
- The facility, repeatedly damaged since 2022 and restarted in April 2025, now faces fresh disruption that could affect regional power supply.
- Sloviansk and nearby Kramatorsk in Ukrainian‑held Donetsk have come under intensified Russian fire targeting key urban and energy infrastructure.
- Kyiv is enforcing near‑daily rolling outages, and Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned this will be the toughest winter since the invasion while urging electricity conservation.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a law on Oct. 30 extending martial law and general mobilization for 90 days beginning Nov. 5.