Russia’s airstrikes have plunged Ukraine into darkness as almost a third of the country’s power plants have been destroyed.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that 30 per cent of power plants were hit over the past week, causing “massive blackouts across the country”.
Russian missiles have taken aim at Ukraine‘s power grid since 10 October in an apparent bid to deny Ukrainians heating during the approaching winter and to erode civilian morale.
Moscow has also been bombarding Ukrainian cities with Iranian-made drones that have smashed into apartment blocks.
Renewed strikes around Ukraine caused several explosions in an area of northern Kyiv where there is a thermal power station. Two people were killed and one person was wounded, the Kyiv city prosecutor’s office said.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the presidential office, said three Russian strikes had hit an unspecified energy facility. City mayor Vitali Klitschko said the attack was on “critical infrastructure” in northern Kyiv.
It comes after 13 were killed in Russia after one of the country’s own fighter planes crashed into a residential building in the southern city of Yeysk on Monday.
