🔴Ukraine live: Russia's 'targeted' strikes on energy leave 600,000 without power, Zelensky says

We and our partners do the following data processing based on your consent: store and/or access information on a device, personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development Ukraine live: Russia's 'targeted' strikes on energy leave 600,000 without power, Zelensky says People inspect the damage inside an apartment building damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine on October 14, 2026. © Valentyn Ogirenko, Heavy overnight Russian strikes killed at least six people in Ukraine and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people, authorities said on Wednesday. ⁠Russia's ​defence ​ministry said ‌it ⁠had ‌downed ⁠902 drones ​over ‌Russian regions overnight, ‌Interfax ​news agency reported. Follow our liveblog for all the latest updates. Zelensky: Russia launched 39 ballistic missiles, more than 120 drones overnight Death toll from Russian strikes in Ukraine rises to 6, authorities say The death toll from Russian strikes on Ukraine has risen to at least six people overnight through Wednesday, authorities said, as Moscow pressed forward with attacks on several regions.

Three people were killed in the capital Kyiv, two in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, and one in southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, according to tallies from regional officials. Ukraine drone attack kills one person in Russia's Balakovo, governor says A ⁠Ukraine ​drone attack ​killed one person and damaged houses ​in ‌the ⁠town of ‌Balakovo on the ⁠Volga River in Russia's Saratov ​region, Governor ‌Roman Busargin said on Telegram, ‌without providing ​further details. Balakovo is home to a ​nuclear power ​plant and ​a hydropower station, ​whose dam spans the Volga River.

Power cuts in parts of Kyiv after heavy Russian strikes, mayor says Heavy Russian strikes on Kyiv have cut power to large parts of the Ukrainian capital, the mayor and a major utility said on Wednesday. "Energy facilities in Kyiv and the surrounding region have come under a massive ballistic missile strike. There are power disruptions in the capital," Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram, in comments backed up by the power company DTEK.

Russia targets Ukrainian state railway in massive attack, CEO says Russian ​forces ​targeted facilities belonging to Ukraine's ​state ‌railway ⁠in ‌a massive attack overnight, ⁠its CEO has said. In ‌a statement on ‌Facebook, Oleksandr ​Pertsovskyi of Ukrzaliznytsia said waves of ​strikes targeted ​the ​Kharkiv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, ​Khmelnytskyi and Ternopil regions. Russia's military has said that it had shot down 902 Ukrainian drones overnight, 180 of them near the capital Moscow.

"Over the past night... air defence systems destroyed 902 Ukrainian drones" across around 20 Russian regions and annexed Crimea, the defence ministry said in a statement. According to the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin, "180 drones were destroyed as they approached Moscow". Russia strikes oil facility in western Ukraine's Lutsk, official says Russian ​forces ​struck an oil facility overnight ​in ‌the ⁠western ‌Ukrainian city ⁠of Lutsk, a city ​official ‌has said.

Andriy ‌Razumovskyi ​said the drone attack sparked ​a ​fire, ​but offered no ​further details. Zelensky says 'targeted' Russian strikes on energy leave 600,000 without power Welcome to the FRANCE 24 liveblog covering the war in Ukraine. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that a Russian ballistic missile struck a Kyiv power plant without advance warning from Western allies, killing at least two people and wounding around 20.