By Olena Harmash
Moscow launched one of its broadest air assaults in months overnight, cutting power to more than half a million households and damaging energy infrastructure across Ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said the energy sector was the main target of the attacks, with damage reported across the country. Ukraine’s energy ministry said rolling blackouts were introduced for households and businesses as crews worked to restore supplies.
A Russian drone attack killed six people, including two children, in a park near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, according to the regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov. Zelenskiy called the strike “an act of absolute barbarity”. Two people were killed in Kyiv and the nearby region and two more in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, officials said. Zelenskiy later said he had discussed speeding up supplies of the Patriot system, vital to countering Russian ballistic missiles, with representatives of the US company Lockheed Martin. Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces carried out a “massive strike” using precision weapons and attack drones against Ukrainian defence industry facilities, drone and cruise missile storage sites, and a data centre.
Tensions are running high between Zelenskiy and President Donald Trump’s administration over US support for Ukraine and Washington’s approach to Russia. KYIV, – Ukraine received no advance warning from its partners of a Russian ballistic missile strike overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, adding that some vital deliveries from the United States were being delayed.
