War in Ukraine: at least six dead after Russian strikes, energy infrastructure hit in kyiv

Loud explosions rang out. Several regions of Ukraine were hit by Russian missile fire on the night of Tuesday October 13 to Wednesday October 14, killing at least six people. In detail, three people were killed in kyiv, according to the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, two other people died in the central region of Dnipropetrovsk and a resident was killed in the Zaporizhia region, in the southeast of the country, according to counts from regional officials.

Vitali Klitschko added that "several energy infrastructures" in kyiv had been affected, causing power cuts to be noted in several neighborhoods. This comes a few days after Donald Trump announced an agreement between Moscow and kyiv for a truce regarding strikes on energy infrastructure, which neither capital had confirmed. For its part, Russia announced Wednesday that it had shot down 902 Ukrainian drones overnight, 180 of which were neutralized near Moscow.

“No prior warning from our partners”

As of Tuesday evening, a power plant in kyiv was hit by a Russian missile, Volodymyr Zelensky said. “Once again, no prior warning from our partners,” he lamented on Facebook. Ukraine is dependent on Western, and particularly American, military intelligence to detect Russian attacks and strike targets itself. The recent resurgence of tensions between the Ukrainian president and his counterpart Donald Trump makes kyiv fear a relaxation of this crucial support. “Our systems only detected these missiles when they were already practically approaching kyiv,” continued Volodymyr Zelensky, calling the targeted plant “a key energy installation of kyiv”.