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Russia Downs 902 Drones, Strikes Seven Energy Facilities as Zelensky Says Trump Ceasefire Ignored
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Russia launched a large-scale campaign targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure, hitting seven facilities. About 600,000 people lost power after Russian strikes on the energy sector.
Energy strikes and ceasefire
Russian forces carried out an intensified nighttime air campaign targeting energy infrastructure in Ukraine, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow was ignoring the ceasefire on energy facilities between Moscow and Kyiv announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.
“A directed ballistic missile strike hit energy infrastructure—the very infrastructure covered by the ceasefire announced by the American president.”
Zelensky told 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."
A Ukrainian official in the western city of Lutsk, Andriy Razomovsky, said Russian forces bombed an oil facility during the night and that the attack launched by Russia with drones caused a fire.
Alexander Burtsevsky, CEO of Ukraine's state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, announced that waves of strikes hit the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, and Ternopil regions, and he said Russian forces targeted company facilities in a large nighttime attack.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said it downed 902 Ukrainian drones and targeted seven energy infrastructure facilities and a data center in Ukraine during a wide-scale attack carried out late Tuesday.
Starlink limits disrupt missions
Ukrainian defense technology adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov said SpaceX restricted Starlink communications overnight, warning that the speed limits disrupted Ukrainian battlefield "missions". Beskrestnov said Ukrainian troops had not been informed about the speed limits set overnight at 100mph (160km/h) by Elon Musk's SpaceX company, and a source in the Ukrainian defence ministry later confirmed this to the BBC. Zelensky said at least 600,000 people across Ukraine were left without electricity after deadly overnight Russian missile and drone strikes, and he said "critical" energy infrastructure had been hit in Kyiv and the capital region and in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv.
The BBC reported that the Russian defence ministry said 902 Ukrainian drones had been shot down overnight over a number of Russian regions, including the capital Moscow and Crimea. In a separate account, Serhiy Beskrestnov said on Telegram that SpaceX had "implemented overnight a speed limit on Starlink terminals" and that it had already resulted in "the disruption of a number of missions."
Dead, power outages, and fallout
Ukrainian authorities reported that six people were killed in Russian overnight strikes, with three people killed in Kyiv where power outages hit several districts, according to local officials.
Zelenskiy wrote on Facebook that "Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. Once again, there was no prior warning from our partners," and he said the main target was Thermal Power Plant No. 4, described as a "critical power facility in Kyiv."
The BBC reported that three people were killed in Kyiv, and it said Russia's "massive" strikes had hit communications and energy facilities used by Ukraine's military.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said its forces targeted two heating and power generation stations in the capital Kyiv, a similar station in the Kyiv region, and a thermal power plant and a substation, as well as two heating and power generation facilities and a thermal power plant in Kharkiv.
Zelensky said the strikes targeting the energy sector overnight left 600,000 people without power, and he said Moscow intentionally ignored the energy sector ceasefire declared by U.S. President Donald Trump.