More than 600,000 left with no power in Ukraine after strikes, authorities say
Summary
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left hundreds of thousands of people without power, authorities said on Sunday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also reported heating outages and a new drone attack near a site where rescue teams were searching for victims of an earlier strike.Key Facts
- DTEK said more than 600,000 people lost power in the Dnipropetrovsk region after strikes damaged energy facilities.
- Zlatopil’s mayor said a Russian drone hit critical infrastructure in the Kharkiv region, leaving nearly 250,000 customers without power.
- Zelenskyy said the strikes caused widespread power outages across Ukraine.
- In the Zhytomyr region, 140 apartment buildings lost heating after a Russian strike, Zelenskyy said.
- Zelenskyy said Russia launched an FPV drone at Komyshuvakha while rescue operations continued at an aid distribution center hit earlier.
- Zelenskyy said the death toll from the earlier attack in Komyshuvakha had risen to 55, up from an earlier emergency-services count of 50.
- Ukraine’s energy ministry said a major strike the previous day had plunged five regions into darkness and disrupted electricity transmission in Kyiv.
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