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On Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia was to blame for widespread power outages in eastern Ukraine, charging Moscow with purposefully targeting civilian infrastructure.
Zelensky blamed “Russian terrorists” for “a total blackout in the Kharkiv and Donetsk districts, a partial one in the Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Sumy regions.”
He declared on social media that there were “no military facilities.” People’s access to light and heat is the intended result.
Nine million people, or over half of those regions’ combined population, were affected by the blackouts, including Russian-controlled territory.
They arrived as Ukrainian forces said that they had retaken dozens of towns and villages in the country’s east.
Soon after the energy cut announcements, officials in the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, and Poltava areas said that power had been restored.
The national train service reported delays throughout the east, notably in Kharkiv, the nation’s second-largest city, due to the Russian attacks, which were also causing problems with the railroads.
The Kharkiv CHPP-5 energy station was one of the facilities struck, according to Mykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to the Ukrainian president.
During one of her attacks in Kharkiv, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the president of Ukraine, released video of the incident, which showed an industrial site on fire with emergency personnel on the scene.
Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian foreign ministry, claimed that the Russian attacks were a “act of desperation” in response to Russia’s significant defeats and withdrawal from eastern Ukraine.
