What happened
Russian strikes damaged important energy facilities in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region during a night attack, leaving more than 600,000 residents without power, according to power company DTEK. The company said restoration work was complicated by repeated attacks.
A separate Russian drone strike hit a critical infrastructure facility in the northeastern Kharkiv region, leaving nearly 250,000 customers without electricity, said Mykola Baksheyev, mayor of Zlatopil city.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the night-time strikes caused widespread power outages across the country. In the Zhytomyr region alone, 140 apartment buildings lost heating following a Russian strike, he said, while temperatures in Ukraine hovered around freezing.
Zelenskyy also reported that Russia attacked Komyshuvakha, a village in the Zaporizhzhia region, with an FPV drone. Emergency rescue operations had been underway there for seven days after Moscow hit an aid distribution centre on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks of the war. The death toll from that attack has risen to 55 people, up from a previous count of 50, Zelenskyy said, adding that more people may still be under the rubble.
The strikes followed a massive attack on energy facilities the previous day that plunged residents in five regions into darkness and significantly hampered electricity transmission in Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s energy ministry.
