US EditionNews24 | Russia strikes Ukraine’s power grid, triggering emergency blackouts across most of country
- On Wednesday, Russian strikes forced emergency power cuts across most of Ukraine, Ukrenergo said, extending controls already put in place on Tuesday.
- As winter approaches, Russia stepped up strikes on energy and rail networks, while Ukrainian officials including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pressed allies to boost air-defence and energy support.
- DTEK said it returned power to 1.9 million residents mostly in Kyiv, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions over the past week while Points of Invincibility provided phone charging amid outages.
- Ukrenergo announced emergency cuts in all but two regions, with planned power outages already active in Donetsk and Chernihiv regions.
- Zelenskiy accused Moscow of trying to sow chaos with the strikes, which harmed the gas sector, while Shmyhal warned of a `very tough, very difficult winter` and urged partners for more interceptor drones.
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There is no electricity in almost all of Ukraine due to damage from Russian attacks, the network operator announced today.
Almost all of Ukraine is without electricity due to damage from Russian attacks, the network operator announced tonight.
"Emergency recovery work is under way in all areas affected by the bombings", added the national operator, who calls on the inhabitants to use the electricity available "with parsimony"
Russia is stepping up attacks on Ukraine's energy supply. Large parts of the country are without power as temperatures drop.
"Emergency power cuts" have been extended to all regions except Donetsk, where fighting is concentrated, a sign of a situation that has worsened compared to the previous day. Russia regularly bombards Ukrainian energy infrastructure as winter approaches.
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