Ukrainian Blackouts Grow More Dire as Russia Steps Up Attacks
- Kremlin deliberately targeting Ukraine’s energy system, grid
- About a quarter of the pre-war population without electricity
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Ukraine is approaching the winter months with blackouts spreading across the country, as Russia’s missile campaign pummels power stations, grid networks and other civilian facilities.
More than 10 million Ukrainians -- about a quarter of the pre-war population -- are without electricity, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his overnight address Thursday, as the first snow fell in the capital Kyiv.