US EditionRussia pummels Ukraine's power grid before talks
Russian strikes targeted 13 sites, killing three energy workers and causing outages in five regions, including severe damage to Odesa's power infrastructure, officials said.
- Russian forces launched strikes overnight, hitting 12 Ukrainian regions and killing three energy workers, leaving tens of thousands without power and heat hours before US-backed trilateral talks in Geneva.
- Ukraine's air force said Russia launched nearly 400 drones and 29 missiles, and Zelenskiy wrote `It was a combined strike, specially calculated to cause as much damage as possible to our energy sector` during the winter campaign since February 2022.
- Most were downed, but 13 targets in Ukraine were hit, and private energy company DTEK said power infrastructure supplying Odesa suffered "incredibly serious" damage, with residents photographed at strike sites.
- Deputy Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov said homes in five regions suffered power cuts and heating disruptions, including Odesa and Sumy, while energy companies warned repairs will take a long time.
- A Russian drone struck a car near the Sloviansk power plant, a frontline area Moscow wants Kyiv to cede, reflecting Russia's February 2022 full-scale invasion and its longer-term pattern of energy-targeted strikes.
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Russia launched nearly 400 drones and 29 rockets to Ukraine with just a few hours before a new peace round scheduled in Geneva. The attacks focused on special energy infrastructure and were interpreted as a message of power transmitted in full diplomatic effort. Russia's article attacked Ukraine massive right before the start of a new round of negotiations. Donald Trump's weird reaction appeared for the first time in Romania TV.
"Russia is making a mockery of peace efforts: it launched a massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine just before the next round of talks in Geneva," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiha said on social media.
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