On Sunday evening, entire regions in the east of Ukraine were affected by large-scale power outages. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Russia is responsible for the blackout, and accused Moscow of deliberately striking civilian infrastructure.

Russian missiles fired at KharkivPhoto: Vadim Belikov / AP / Profimedia

Russian airstrikes in important parts of eastern Ukraine suffered power outages on Sunday evening, several Ukrainian officials announced.

Officials from Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Sumy regions (east) or Dnipropetrovsk (center) publish messages about such disruptions on social networks. AFP correspondents also discovered a large-scale power outage in the eastern city of Kramatorsk.

UPDATE 4: On Sunday night, the Russians fired 11 missiles into eastern Ukraine

Russian forces fired a total of 11 missiles at regions in eastern Ukraine, the Air Force of Ukraine reported on Twitter on Sunday night.

UPDATE 3: Zelensky: “Terrorists of the Russian Federation remain terrorists”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Sunday evening that Russia was responsible for the power outages that hit eastern Ukraine and accused Moscow of a deliberate attack on civilian infrastructure, writes AFP.

“Total blackout in Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, partial blackout in Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions,” Zelensky announced in a message on social networks, accusing Moscow of “depriving people of light and heat.”

“Terrorists of the Russian Federation remain terrorists and attack critical infrastructure. They are not military facilities, their purpose is to deprive people of light and heat,” Zelenskyy wrote.

UPDATE 2: Russia hit power grids in Dnipropetrovsk, regional governor

Russian troops on Sunday struck the energy infrastructure in the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, cutting off electricity in several cities, regional governor Valentyn Reznizenko said, Reuters reports.

“Some cities and settlements are without electricity. The Russians hit the energy infrastructure. They cannot come to terms with defeats on the battlefield,” Valentin Reznichenko wrote in Telegram. “We will manage. All services are running. We will restore everything as quickly as possible,” he added.

Russian troops hit the critical infrastructure of Kharkiv (Photo: Kostiantyn Liberov / AP / Profimedia)

UPDATE 1: Much of the city of Kharkiv is in darkness

Several districts of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, were left without power on Sunday evening after an attack by Russian troops, the city’s mayor said, according to CNN.

After a strike at an infrastructure facility in Kharkiv, “power cuts have been cut off in several areas of the city. For the same reason, there is no water in those areas – the pumps are not working,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in Telegram.

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