{"id":487873,"date":"2025-10-10T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487873\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:34:13","slug":"more-than-450-russian-drones-attack-ukraines-energy-sites-president-zelenskyy-says-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487873\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 450 Russian drones attack Ukraine’s energy sites, President Zelenskyy says | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia has used more than 450 drones and 30 missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine’s energy sector, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. <\/p>\n

The president said there were power outages in nine regions and reiterated the need for more air defence support from allies.<\/p>\n

“It is precisely the civilian and energy infrastructure that is the main target of Russia’s strikes ahead of the heating season,” President Zelenskiy said on X.<\/p>\n

Parts of Kyiv lost power during the attack, with several floors of a block of flats in the Pecherskyi district catching fire after being hit by a drone.<\/p>\n

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\n Damage to the interior of one of the flats that caught fire in Kyiv. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

Fragments from shot-down drones landed in a number of areas of the capital and mayor Vitali Klitschko said eight people had been taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

The mayor said there were power cuts and disruptions to the water supply in districts on the east of Kyiv’s Dnipro River.<\/p>\n

Russia<\/a><\/strong> has recently launched several large attacks on Ukraine<\/a><\/strong>‘s infrastructure as winter looms. A missile and drone attack last week caused serious damage to key gas production facilities.<\/p>\n

Around 28,000 families were still without electricity in Kyiv region on Friday morning, according to Governor Mykola Kalashnyk, while officials in the central Poltava region said 17,000 had lost power.<\/p>\n

A seven-year-old boy was also killed and four people were injured in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, where 12 apartment blocks were damaged.<\/p>\n

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\n Rescuers carry an injured woman into an ambulance in Kyiv. Pic: AP<\/p>\n

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\n A building was also hit in Brovary, near Kyiv. Pic: AP<\/p>\n

Energy minister Svitlana Grynchuk confirmed that energy sites had been targeted by the overnight attacks.<\/p>\n

“As soon as safety conditions allow, energy experts will begin clarifying the consequences of the attack and conducting restoration work,” she said.<\/p>\n

Russia’s now-familiar tactic is to launch hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles simultaneously to try to overwhelm air defences.<\/p>\n

At least five people were killed<\/a><\/strong> – with tens of thousands also losing power – in another attack on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\n The latest situation on the ground in Ukraine<\/p>\n

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The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than three and half years after Russia invaded the country.<\/p>\n

It now holds a significant slice of the east of the country – with small gains still occurring – but its vision of overrunning the country in a short timeframe never materialised.<\/p>\n

Russia is also in charge of Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n

President Zelenskyy<\/a><\/strong> has called for more air defence units, particularly the US-made Patriot system, as well as tighter sanctions to try to pressure Vladimir Putin to negotiate.<\/p>\n

He said on X: “What’s needed is not window dressing but decisive action – from the United States, Europe, and the G7 – in delivering air defence systems and enforcing sanctions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia has used more than 450 drones and 30 missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine’s energy sector,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-487873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115348955242606593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}