Russian overnight strikes on energy facilities left more than 600,000 people without electricity in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday, November 8, as hospitals switched to generators and crews worked to restore power under continued shelling, officials and energy provider DTEK said.
DTEK reported that important energy facilities had been damaged. It said repeated attacks were making repairs harder. Regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said hospitals and other essential facilities were using backup generators.
Hanzha also said electric public transport in Dnipro had stopped. Outages affected the city and several districts around it, according to regional reports. The blackout was part of a wider series of strikes.
Officials reported that a separate attack on infrastructure also left nearly 250,000 customers in the Kharkiv region without electricity. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said power outages had spread across the country. He reported that 140 apartment buildings in Zhytomyr were left without heating.
The attacks came as Ukraine prepared for another winter of war. Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s energy network since its full-scale invasion began in 2022.