War in Ukraine: Hundreds of thousands of residents deprived of electricity after Russian strikes

In Ukraine, the strikes continue. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, energy infrastructure was targeted in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv, the authorities and the Ukrainian energy supplier announced on Sunday. The country is preparing to face another particularly harsh winter of war, while Russia intensifies its daily aerial bombardments, raining drones and missiles on the electricity grid.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, in central Ukraine, “more than 600,000 residents found themselves without electricity,” announced the Ukrainian operator DTEK on Telegram after this nighttime offensive. Efforts to restore the network have been “complicated by repeated attacks,” she said.

Two attacks in two nights

In another attack, a Russian drone hit “a critical facility” in the Kharkiv region in the northeast of the country, the mayor of the town of Zlatopil, Mykola Baksheyev, announced on social media. “Nearly 250,000 users in the region were deprived of electricity,” he said. Repair work is underway. Energy infrastructure in five regions of Ukraine has already been the target of massive Russian strikes overnight from Friday to Saturday, leading to power outages.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced a means of “pressure” used by Moscow before the resumption of trilateral negotiations expected next week.