Russian strikes on Ukraine leave hundreds of thousands without electricity

SaveSharefacebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylinkA heavily damaged thermal power plant of the Ukrainian energy provider DTEK in an undisclosed location on February 9, 2026 [Genya Savilov/AFP]By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and ReutersPublished On 8 Nov 20268 Nov 2026More than 600,000 people in Ukraine’s eastern Dnipropetrovsk region are without electricity after a Russian overnight attack on an energy facility, a Ukrainian energy provider has said.Residents across the Pavlohrad, Samarivskyi, Kamianske and Dnipro districts, as well as the city of Dnipro, faced electricity outages on Sunday, power company DTEK wrote in a Telegram post.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Ukraine raises Zaporizhia aid strike death toll to at least 50list 2 of 3Zelenskyy accuses Russia of escalating strikes ahead of peace talkslist 3 of 3‘They started bombing us with drones’: Russian attacks unnerve Zaporizhzhiaend of listEngineers were at the scene attempting to restore the damaged facility, but “repairs are being complicated by repeated attacks”, DTEK said.Ukraine is bracing for yet another harsh winter of war as Russia ramps up daily aerial attacks, raining down drones and missiles on the power network.Another 250,000 Ukrainians were left without power in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine on Sunday after Russia struck an infrastructure facility there.“No casualties have been reported, ” said Mykola Baksheyev, mayor of Zlatopil city, on Telegram.“Power engineers are currently working to repair the damage; however, the exact timeframe for restoring the electricity supply remains unknown.”The attacks came a day after Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said a massive attack on energy facilities had plunged residents in five regions into darkness and significantly hampered electricity transmission in Kyiv.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of intensifying attacks to put pressure on Kyiv at United States-brokered trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated on its Telegram channel that its forces will “continue to carry out strikes against Ukrainian fuel and energy infrastructure facilities” that they say are used to aid the Ukrainian military.