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Russia launches major attack on Ukraine's energy grid
Confirmed
In Short: Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 32 cruise missiles, 166 Shahed-type drones, half of which were jet-powered, and a number of ballistic missiles.
At least five people were killed in overnight attacks across Ukraine, including a child in the Kyiv region, according to Koretskyi.
In total, 11 regions of Ukraine were attacked overnight, with residential buildings, social infrastructure, civilian enterprises, and railways also targeted.
The attacks impacted power supplies, with Ukraine's biggest private energy firm, DTEK, saying power to 8,000 homes had been restored following a difficult night in the capital.
The Trypilska Thermal Power Plant in Kyiv Oblast was damaged in the Russian attack, Centrenergo confirmed.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 32 cruise missiles, 166 Shahed-type drones, half of which were jet-powered, and a number of ballistic missiles.
The Kyiv Independent reported that Russia attacked across Ukraine with 188 drones, 86 of them jet-powered, as well as with Zircon, Onyx, and Iskander missiles.
Ukraine's military said it had struck a number of Russian military targets, including a drone warehouse in the occupied Donetsk region.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed that six people were injured in the overnight attacks on the capital.
The attacks caused an estimated $10 billion in damage to fixed assets in Ukraine this year alone, according to Kravchenko.
Russia's defense ministry said it had launched massive overnight strikes on Ukrainian facilities, targeting the Trypilska power station, the largest supplier of electricity to Kyiv.
Ukraine's state power grid operator Ukrenergo said it had imposed its first emergency power cuts since spring as a result of the attack in Kyiv and three surrounding regions.
The attacks followed days of drone attacks on Kyiv, a prelude to what many Ukrainians expect to be a winter of attacks intended to plunge cities into cold and darkness.
What this adds
Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have intensified every winter since the full-scale invasion in 2022.
The attacks on Kyiv and Odesa involved anti-ship, ballistic, and cruise missiles, as well as 166 attack drones.
Residential buildings, a school, and warehouses were damaged in the attacks which started in Kyiv at 3:30 a.m.
Russian forces are intensifying efforts to specifically target Ukrainian data centers and telecommunications infrastructure as part of their ongoing long-range strike campaign aimed at degrading Ukraine’s economy since 2022.
Background
Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi says Russia has launched the largest attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure since spring, targeting Kyiv and surrounding regions.
Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine's internet infrastructure, targeting data centers and communication nodes in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast.
What's confirmed
- At least five people were killed in overnight attacks across Ukraine, including a child in the Kyiv region, according to Koretskyi.
- In total, 11 regions of Ukraine were attacked overnight, with residential buildings, social infrastructure, civilian enterprises, and railways also targeted.
- The attacks impacted power supplies, with Ukraine's biggest private energy firm, DTEK, saying power to 8,000 homes had been restored following a difficult night in the capital.
- The Trypilska Thermal Power Plant in Kyiv Oblast was damaged in the Russian attack, Centrenergo confirmed.
- Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 32 cruise missiles, 166 Shahed-type drones, half of which were jet-powered, and a number of ballistic missiles.
- The Kyiv Independent reported that Russia attacked across Ukraine with 188 drones, 86 of them jet-powered, as well as with Zircon, Onyx, and Iskander missiles.
- Ukraine's military said it had struck a number of Russian military targets, including a drone warehouse in the occupied Donetsk region.
- Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed that six people were injured in the overnight attacks on the capital.
- The attacks caused an estimated $10 billion in damage to fixed assets in Ukraine this year alone, according to Kravchenko.
- Russia's defense ministry said it had launched massive overnight strikes on Ukrainian facilities, targeting the Trypilska power station, the largest supplier of electricity to Kyiv.
- Ukraine's state power grid operator Ukrenergo said it had imposed its first emergency power cuts since spring as a result of the attack in Kyiv and three surrounding regions.
- The attacks followed days of drone attacks on Kyiv, a prelude to what many Ukrainians expect to be a winter of attacks intended to plunge cities into cold and darkness.
What's still developing
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- It has happened every winter so far since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
- The focus of the attacks were Kyiv and Odesa and Russia used Onyx anti-ship missiles, Iskander-M/S-400/KN-23 ballistic missiles and also 32 air-launched Kh-101 cruise missiles, a statement on Telegram read.
- Elina Beketova, fellow, democratic resilience, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) told Newsweek Russia’s barrage after the U.S. delegation left demonstrates something fundamental about the Kremlin’s current calculations.
- An attack on a gas station in the Bryansk region town of Starodub, 21 miles north of the Ukrainian border, killed one man and injured three others, acting Governor Yegor Kovalchuk said.
- In the nearby Belgorod region, acting Governor Alexander Shuvayev said one person was killed and four others injured after Ukraine carried out 112 attacks over 24 hours.
- "Diplomacy is important, and these channels need to remain open but diplomacy alone is unlikely to stop Russian attacks," she said.
- Ushakov’s statement showed that the Kremlin remains unwilling to make any meaningful compromises to Russia’s maximalist demands, the Institute for the Study of War said Sunday.
- Russia and Ukraine pledged to halt strikes on each other’s capitals for three days as Washington sent envoys to Moscow and Kyiv, although fighting continued elsewhere.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were strikes on critical infrastructure in the Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad and Rivne regions.
- "Since the summer, there has been practically no day when the enemy has not attacked energy infrastructure. But such a massive and combined attack has occurred for the first time since the end of the last heating season," Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said.