A Russian drone and missile attack hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure across nine regions overnight on Tuesday. Ukraine's air force intercepted just three of 17 ballistic missiles, while Washington pushes for talks in Abu Dhabi next week.
A massive Russian drone and missile attack targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure across the country overnight on Tuesday, as Moscow ratchets up its air campaign ahead of winter.
More than a dozen energy facilities were hit across nine regions, according to Ukrainian authorities. The air force reported intercepting just three of the 17 Russian ballistic missiles, which points to Kyiv's acute shortage of air-defence interceptors.
Power plants knocked offline
Ukraine's largest private energy company DTEK said three of its power plants were knocked offline by dozens of missiles and drones. Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said power plants and substations had been hit in nine regions.
DTEK executive Maxim Timchenko told the FT that Russia "is dangerously escalating its efforts to deny Ukrainians critical services like energy this winter". The campaign has already led to power outages in Kyiv, sometimes lasting more than 10 hours, and in several other regions.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address on Monday that Russians are striking not only power generation facilities but also the power grid and energy distribution infrastructure.
Civilian deaths and rail damage
A strike on a village near the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region on Monday, officials said, killed at least 31 people, including two emergency workers, with 48 people still unaccounted for. Nine three-ton gliding bombs levelled a closed school used as a humanitarian distribution point.
The United Nations' monitoring mission in Ukraine said it had confirmed 328 civilian deaths in September, up from 249 people killed in the same period last year.
The attacks have also expanded to logistics. Koretskyi said the latest strike damaged several passenger train carriages and locomotives, as well as the railway station in Zaporizhzhia. Last week, drones killed 15 people at the train station in Dnipro.
Peace talks planned in Abu Dhabi
Washington has sought to revive a peace process that has stalled since the start of the war in Iran in February. Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff said on Monday that Ukrainian, Russian and US negotiating teams would meet in Abu Dhabi next week.
Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said the intensified strikes came as Russian advances had markedly slowed on the front line in recent months.
Source: Financial Times
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