US EditionAs Russian Attacks Worsen Ukraine’s Energy Woes, Trump Rebukes Kyiv
- Ukraine's Security Service reported that Russian attacks on energy infrastructure qualify as crimes against humanity, aimed at creating life-threatening conditions for civilians.
- Since October 2025, the SBU documented 256 air attacks on energy facilities in Ukraine, including 11 hydroelectric plants and 45 thermal plants.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a state of emergency in the energy sector to manage the crisis caused by severe Russian strikes, including establishing a special headquarters in Kyiv.
- The SBU is gathering evidence from each strike to build cases for prosecution, classifying the systematic destruction of Ukraine's energy system as international crimes under Ukrainian law.
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Because of the power strikes in the middle of winter.
The necessary evidence base has been gathered to confirm that Russian strikes on energy are a consistent Kremlin policy aimed at destroying the Ukrainian people and have signs of crimes against humanity.
SBU qualifies Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy sector as crimes against humanity
The State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has gathered the necessary evidence base, which confirms that Russian attacks on the energy sector are a consistent policy of the Kremlin aimed at the destruction of the Ukrainian people, and have signs of crimes against humanity, the SBU said.
The Security Service of Ukraine has collected a large-scale evidence base confirming that Russia's systemic attacks on the Ukrainian energy system are a deliberate policy of exterminating civilians. The intelligence service qualifies these actions as crimes against humanity that have the characteristics of an international war crime. Since the beginning of the 2025-2026 heating season, the SBU has recorded 256 strikes on life support facilities.…
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