Russian drones and missiles cut electricity to hundreds of thousands in Ukraine

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Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left hundreds of thousands without electricity in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, authorities said Sunday. Power company DTEK said more than 600,000 residents of Dnipropetrovsk region lost power after overnight damage to energy facilities; repeated attacks were complicating repairs. Zlatopil Mayor Mykola Baksheyev said a Russian drone struck critical infrastructure in Kharkiv region, leaving nearly 250,000 customers without power. In a separate wave, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian attacks involving 172 drones and 36 ballistic missiles targeted 12 regions on Saturday. Substations linking the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plants to Kyiv and central Ukraine were hit. Zelenskyy accused Moscow of seeking to pressure Kyiv ahead of U.S.-brokered trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi next week.