Drone strikes cut power in Ukraine

Ukrainian drone strikes damaged energy networks in Russia-occupied parts of southern Ukraine, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power on Sunday, according to Kremlin-installed authorities there.

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IN KYIV, an outage due to Russian attacks sends Ukrainians outdoors Sunday.

(DANYLO ANTONIUK Associated Press)

Meanwhile, Moscow has kept up its hammering of Ukraine’s energy grid in overnight attacks that killed at least two people, according to Ukrainian officials.

More than 200,000 households in the Russia-held part of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region had no electricity Sunday, according to the Kremlin-installed local governor.

In a post on the messaging app Telegram, Yevgeny Balitsky said that nearly 400 settlements have seen their supply cut because of damage to power networks from Ukrainian drone strikes.

Russia has pummeled Ukraine’s power grid, especially in winter, throughout the nearly four-year war.

The strikes aim to weaken Ukrainians’ will to resist in a strategy that Kyiv officials call “weaponizing winter.”

Russia targeted energy infrastructure in the Odesa region overnight Sunday, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Service. A fire broke out and was promptly extinguished.

At least six people were wounded in the Dnipro-petrovsk region from Russian attacks, the emergency service said.