There have been reports of Russian missile attacks across Ukraine, and more than one million people are now affected by emergency power outages amid freezing temperatures.
According to the energy minister, Ukraine’s power infrastructure has come “under massive enemy attack,” leaving more than one million people without electricity.
In a Facebook post on Thursday, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said, “Attacks on energy facilities are taking place across Ukraine” and that the national power grid’s operator had “urgently introduced emergency power cuts”. Russia’s Ministry of Defence has yet to make any announcements.
Ukrainian news outlets Dzerkalo Tyzhnia and Suspilne reported that explosions were heard in the cities of Odesa, Kropyvnytskyi, Kharkiv, Rivne, and Lutsk on Thursday morning. Air defence forces work in the capital. Stay in shelters!” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
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