A Russian air attack cut power to more than 1 million Kyiv residents and impacted substations carrying power from Ukraine’s atomic plants on Tuesday, prompting Ukraine to warn that Moscow is using the risk of nuclear disaster as a tool of coercion.
Moscow has stepped up a winter campaign against Ukraine’s battered energy system while grinding forward on the battlefield, as Kyiv faces U.S. pressure to secure peace after nearly four years of war, amid scant signs the Kremlin wants to stop fighting.
Drone and missile strikes killed four people — three in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia and one in the Kyiv region surrounding the capital. Other regions in the east, south and north of Ukraine also came under attack.