Russian Strikes Cut Power to Hundreds of Thousands in Ukraine
Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure left hundreds of thousands without electricity on Sunday. The outages hit the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions hardest.
600,000+ people lost power in Dnipropetrovsk, power company DTEK said.
250,000 customers in the Kharkiv region also lost power.
140 apartment buildings in Zhytomyr lost heating, Zelenskyy said.
55 dead in the Komyshuvakha aid center strike, Zelenskyy said.
Why it matters: Repeated attacks are slowing repairs, DTEK said, as temperatures hover near freezing. The strikes followed a Saturday attack that blacked out five regions and disrupted transmission in Kyiv.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has about two weeks of generator fuel, the IAEA said.
The cause of the plant's power line disconnection is not yet known.
Left coverage, 1 sources: The left frames the story around the scale of civilian outages and Zelenskyy's charge that Russia is escalating before peace talks.
What’s next: US-brokered trilateral talks are set for Tuesday and Wednesday in Abu Dhabi. Zelenskyy accuses Russia of escalating strikes to pressure Kyiv before them.
Russia's Defense Ministry said strikes on energy sites aiding Ukraine's military will continue.
Zlatopil Mayor Mykola Baksheyev said the restoration timeline remains unknown.
Will the Zaporizhzhia plant regain external power before its generator fuel runs out?
