Overnight Russian strikes on Ukrainian utility infrastructure cut electrical power to more than 850,000 customers across central and northeastern regions on Sunday, as freezing winter temperatures set in.
In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, night attacks damaged key energy facilities and disconnected more than 600,000 residents from the grid, according to power company DTEK. Utility operator DTEK said technicians are attempting to restore transmission lines, but stated the work was "complicated by repeated attacks."
A separate Russian drone strike hit a critical infrastructure installation in the northeastern Kharkiv region, Mayor of Zlatopil Mykola Baksheyev said. The impact cut electrical service to approximately 250,000 consumers in the province.
Heating Systems Struck Near Freezing Mark
Outages also affected municipal heating as outdoor temperatures hovered near freezing. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that in the Zhytomyr region, 140 apartment buildings lost heating following a strike.
The overnight bombardment followed attacks on November 7 that knocked out electricity in the center of Kyiv. Ukraine's energy ministry reported that the earlier wave hit power installations in five regions, leaving local populations in darkness and significantly disrupting transmission lines feeding the capital.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, an FPV drone struck the village of Komyshuvakha on Sunday morning, Zelenskyy reported. The drone hit the site of an emergency operation where rescue teams have spent seven days searching through the rubble of an earlier attack on an aid distribution facility that killed at least 55 people.
Repair crews in Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv continue operations to restore electrical service to affected residents as work proceeds under the threat of renewed strikes.
