Heavy Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 6, cut power in Kyiv

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy provider, said on the same platform that the attack has caused emergency power cuts in the Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi, Pecherskyi and Solomianskyi districts, as well as in part of the Golosiivsky district”.

Further Russian ballistic missile attacks were reported in Kharkiv and Zhytomyr regions, and other strikes hit Sumy and Chernigiv.

The governor of Russia’s Saratov region, citing preliminary estimates, said a Ukrainian drone strike had killed one person in the city of Balakovo.

Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin said air defence forces had downed nearly 500 drones flying towards the Russian capital overnight.

Russian authorities said around 160 more were brought down over the Rostov region, while others targeted Moscow.

NO ADVANCE WARNING

Earlier, Zelenskyy said a Russian strike on a Kyiv power facility on Tuesday evening had come without Ukraine receiving advance warning from its Western allies.

“A Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. Once again, no early warning from our partners,” he wrote on Facebook.

“The main target was energy infrastructure, specifically the CHP-4. Unfortunately, it was hit.”

Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s systems picked up the missiles only as they were nearing the city.

“This is absolutely unjust: when they are destroying our infrastructure, and Ukraine is not even receiving early warnings about ballistic missile launches,” he added.