Russian strikes cut power to hundreds of thousands in Ukraine

Russian strikes hit power infrastructure in four Ukrainian regions overnight, leaving hundreds of thousands of households without electricity, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The attacks underline the vulnerability of Ukraine’s energy system as the war continues and threaten disruption to homes and essential services.

Zelensky said the strikes were intense and that Russia was seeking to exploit a shortage of ballistic missile interceptors. In the same period, a six-day local ceasefire around Russian-controlled Oleshky reached its final day, while fighting continued elsewhere; Russian authorities also reported damage to an industrial site in the Nizhny Novgorod region after Ukrainian drone attacks.