Russian strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure have left thousands of households without electricity, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday. He wrote on social media that substations, transformers and power lines were targeted overnight in four regions: Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi.
Zelenskyy said "hundreds of thousands of families remain without power" and described the "intensity of the strikes" as "extremely high."
Russian officials reported a separate attack on their side. Gleb Nikitin, governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, wrote on Telegram that more than a hundred drones were destroyed in a "massive" overnight drone attack. He said an industrial facility in the Kstovsky district sustained "significant damage" and that preliminary reports showed no casualties. Nikitin did not name the facility. He warned that temporary power outages and reduced hot water and heating were possible during restoration work.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Kyiv agreed to pause strikes on Russian oil refineries until after the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 3, under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, according to the report. The source excerpt does not say whether that pause has held.