Russia carried out a “massive attack” on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, top Ukrainian officials said early Friday, killing at least one person and leaving parts of the capital Kyiv without power.
The Kremlin appears again to be using a tactic deployed in previous years, depriving Ukrainians of power and heat ahead of the bitter winter months. Russia started attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in late September, according to official reports and CNN’s assessment.
The attacks have been almost daily since then, with targets including energy generating facilities, including gas production and distribution.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said in a Telegram statement Friday that it had launched a “massive” strike targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, in what it said was a response to “the terrorist attacks by the Kyiv regime on civilian targets on Russian territory.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Friday’s strike “a cynical and calculated attack, with more than 450 drones and over 30 missiles targeting everything that sustains normal life, everything the Russians want to deprive us of.”
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