Russian strikes in Ukraine leave hundreds of thousands without power | Russia-Ukraine War

Around 850,000 people lost power after Russian attacks on energy infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv in Ukraine.

More than 600,000 people in eastern Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region are without electricity after a Russian overnight attack on an energy facility, a Ukrainian energy supplier said.

Residents of Pavlohrad, Samarivskyi, Kamianske and Dnipro districts, as well as the city of Dnipro, faced power outages on Sunday, the electricity company DTEK wrote in a post on Telegram.

Engineers were on site trying to restore the damaged facilities, but “repairs are complicated by repeated attacks,” DTEK said.

Ukraine is bracing for another harsh winter of war as Russia steps up its daily air attacks, raining down drones and missiles on the power grid.

An additional 250,000 Ukrainians were left without power in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region on Sunday after Russia struck infrastructure there.

“No casualties have been reported,” Mykola Baksheyev, mayor of the town of Zlatopil, said on Telegram.

“Electrical engineers are currently working to repair the damage; however, the exact timetable for restoring electricity supplies remains unknown.”

The attacks come a day after Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said a massive attack on energy facilities had plunged residents in five regions into darkness and significantly hampered electricity transmission to kyiv.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of stepping up attacks to pressure kyiv during U.S.-brokered trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on its Telegram channel that its forces “will continue to carry out strikes against Ukrainian fuel and energy infrastructure” which it says is used to help the Ukrainian military.