Russia pounded energy facilities across Ukraine on Thursday in its biggest missile attack for weeks, firing what Ukrainian officials saw as the first salvo in a new air campaign against the national power grid.
Power cuts were reported in five Ukrainian regions in the west, centre and east, reviving memories of multipleon critical infrastructure last winter that caused sweeping outages for millions during the bitter cold.
Grid operator Ukrenergo said it was the first Russian attack on power infrastructure in six months, and reported damage to facilities in western and central regions. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, visiting the United States following the U.N. General Assembly, condemned what he called "another massive attack".
Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, had focused its air strikes since mid-July on port and grain infrastructure, hampering efforts by Kyiv - a major global grain producer - to export food products.Russia did not comment on the new air strikes, and says Ukraine has been attacking targets inside Russia as Kyiv presses on with a counteroffensive in the east and south against Russia's 19-month-old invasion.
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