Russian air attacks have killed at least six people in Ukraine and caused power cuts in parts of the capital Kyiv, days after United States President Donald Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” in the more-than four year war. The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had carried out a “massive” strike against communications and energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged people to remain in shelters.
There are power disruptions in the capital,” he wrote on Telegram. DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy provider, said the attack had caused emergency power cuts in several urban districts of Kyiv. A Russian strike on a multistorey building in the capital’s Desnianskyi district killed two people, while another attack in Golosiivsky district killed one, Ukraine’s state emergency service said.
The Ukrainian military also reported that two people were killed and six wounded in Russian attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region. Another person was killed in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. Further Russian missile attacks were reported in the Kharkiv and Zhytomyr regions, while other strikes hit Sumy and Chernigiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian attacks on Kyiv had come without Ukraine receiving advance warning from its Western allies. Once again, no early warning from our partners,” he wrote on Facebook. He also accused Russia of violating the “energy ceasefire” Trump announced on Sunday.
The governor of Russia’s Saratov region, Roman Busargin, said a Ukrainian drone strike had killed one person in the city of Balakovo. Busargin said all infrastructure facilities were operating as usual. Balakovo is home to a data centre of Russia’s top lender Sberbank, a nuclear power plant and a hydropower station, whose dam spans the Volga River, among other facilities.
Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin said air defence forces had downed nearly 500 drones flying towards the Russian capital overnight. Russian authorities said about 160 more were brought down over the Rostov region, while others targeted Moscow. Russia’s military later put the number of downed Ukrainian drones overnight at 902, of which 180 were shot down near the capital Moscow.
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