Russia attacks Ukraine's energy infrastructure

Russia launched one of its largest missile and drone strikes against energy infrastructure and other targets across Ukraine on Sunday as its invasion nears the 1,000-day mark.

A total of about 120 cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles - including Tsirkons, Iskanders and Kinzhals - and 90 drones were fired by Kremlin forces, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram. Air defense forces destroyed more than 140 targets, he added.

Russia's defense ministry reported successful strikes on the infrastructure of military airfields and gas production facilities in Ukraine, adding it also targeted "energy facilities that support the Ukrainian military-industrial complex." Claims that airfields had been hit were not confirmed.


The barrage seriously damaged several DTEK thermoelectric power plants, the power generating company said on Telegram. It was the eighth large-scale missile attack against the company's infrastructure this year, DTEK said without elaborating how many plants were hit, and where.

Ukraine's grid operator imposed emergency power cutoffs across the country, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said.