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Russia Bombs Ukraine Energy Sites, Downing 902 Drones as Zelenskyy Blames Ceasefire Breach

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Russia downed 902 Ukrainian drones and bombed seven energy facilities, per Moscow's defense ministry. Zelensky accuses Russia of violating Trump’s energy ceasefire with new strikes.

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Russia Bombs Ukraine Energy Sites, Downing 902 Drones as Zelenskyy Blames Ceasefire Breach
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Energy strikes after truce

Russia carried out a wide-scale attack on Tuesday night that targeted energy infrastructure and a data center in Ukraine, and the Russian Ministry of Defense said it downed 902 Ukrainian drones. The Russian defense ministry said its forces bombed two heating and power generation plants in the capital Kyiv, a similar plant in the Kyiv region, and a thermal power plant and a substation, while also striking heating and power generation facilities and a thermal power plant in Kharkiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine learned of the alleged “ceasefire in the energy sector” through the media, and he accused Russia of violating the energy ceasefire with a targeted ballistic missile strike against energy infrastructure.

Oleksander Burtsovski, the CEO of Ukrzaliznytsia, said Russian forces targeted the state railroad company’s facilities in a large-scale attack launched during Tuesday night, and he said waves of strikes hit the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, and Ternopil regions. Al Jazeera reported that Russian air attacks killed at least nine people and left hundreds of thousands without power, and it quoted Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko urging people to remain in shelters.

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Kyiv accuses Moscow

Zelenskyy said on X that a “directed ballistic missile strike hit energy infrastructure—the very infrastructure covered by the ceasefire announced by the American president,” and he added that the attack was “absolutely deliberate and showy.” Zelenskyy also wrote that Ukraine received “no early warning from our partners” before a Russian ballistic missile attack on the capital, and he said his government detected the missiles only as they neared Kyiv. Serhiy Beskrestnov said SpaceX introduced a speed limit for Starlink terminals in motion, and he argued that “this action cannot be a coincidence and is linked to the current political situation.”

The BBC reported that Beskrestnov warned the Starlink speed restrictions disrupted Ukraine’s battlefield “missions,” and it quoted a Ukrainian defense ministry source saying restrictions affected Starlink connectivity at speeds above 160 km/h. The BBC also said Kyiv was left without electricity after deadly overnight Russian missile and drone strikes, and it reported that Zelensky said “critical” energy infrastructure had been hit in Kyiv and the capital region and in Kharkiv.

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Ukraine’s energy system faced continued pressure as Zelenskyy said Russian strikes targeting the energy sector overnight left 600,000 people without power, and he said Moscow intentionally ignored the energy sector ceasefire declared by Donald Trump. The Russian Ministry of Defense said its forces hit communications and energy infrastructure facilities used by Ukraine’s military, and it also said it bombed a data centre in Kyiv used to gather intelligence about the Russian armed forces. AP reported that a Russian attack on Kyiv’s Desnianskyi district killed at least one person and injured more than 20, and it said falling debris set a gas station ablaze.

AP also reported that repeated attacks forced rescuers to suspend their work several times, and it said three people were killed in a Russian attack on Kyiv on Wednesday, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. The BBC said the Starlink restrictions came as at least 600,000 people across Ukraine were left without electricity, and it described the disruption as complicating operations including logistics, unmanned systems, and middle-strike missions.

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