Power has been restored to 270,000 consumers in Kyiv after Russian overnight attacks knocked it out, Ukraine’s energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk wrote on Facebook on Friday. Kyiv residents heard blasts throughout the night and many woke up without power after a vast overnight air attack which targeted Ukraine’s energy system, Reuters reports.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia used over 450 drones and 30 missiles in a country-wide attack targeting the energy sector. He reported power outages across nine regions and stressed the need for partners’ support with air defence systems and sanctions enforcement.
Russian drones and missiles also damaged 12 apartment buildings in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing a seven-year-old boy and injuring four people, according to the regional governor. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said 12 people had been injured, with eight of them taken to hospital.
