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\n Published on 18\/10\/2025 – 12:55 GMT+2
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Thousands were left without power on Saturday across several regions in Ukraine after overnight Russian drone strikes hit multiple energy facilities.<\/p>\n
In the Kharkiv region, nearly all districts in the city of Chuhuiv were cut off from the electricity grid, according to mayor Halyna Minaieva. In a post on Facebook, she wrote that 10 Russian strikes had hit the city overnight.<\/p>\n
One man was killed in the attacks on Kharkiv, in the village of Zelenyi Hai, according to Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the Kharkiv Military Administration. He added that a total of 12 towns were struck across the region with 23 drones.<\/p>\n
The distribution system operator of the Chernihiv region reported in a Telegram post that 17,000 residents were left without power after a Russian strike hit an energy facility in the Koruukivka district.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Russia’s Ulyanovsk district, an electrical substation was reportedly hit by Ukrainian drones, according to Russian Telegram channels.<\/p>\n
An educational institution in Zaporizhzhia caught fire after it was hit by a Russian drone, the region’s Military Administration head Ivan Fedorov reported. He said Russian forces had conducted five strikes on the city, also damaging residential buildings and vehicles.<\/p>\n
More civilian infrastructure was also struck in the Poltava region, Volodymyr Kohut, head of the regional Military Administration wrote on Telegram. He said a warehouse and a commercial enterprise were damaged in the attack.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian Air Force said its air defences shot down a total of 136 Russian drones during the overnight barrage.<\/p>\n
An increase of Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure ahead of the cold winter months has become a common tactic over the years since its full-scale invasion in 2022, which Ukrainian officials have said is “weaponising winter”.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s attacks came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump in Washington.<\/p>\n
During the meeting Trump had signalled that he’s leaning against selling him long-range Tomahawk missiles, weaponry that the Ukrainians believe could be a game changer in helping prod Putin to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n
Trump said he was hesitant to tap into the US supply, a turnabout after days of suggesting he was seriously weighing sending the missiles to help Ukraine beat back Russia’s invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 18\/10\/2025 – 12:55 GMT+2 \u2022Updated 14:00 ADVERTISEMENT Thousands were left without power on Saturday across several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[103781,15272,332,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-510124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-airstrike","9":"tag-blackout","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russias-invasion-of-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115396777949975497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510124","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=510124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}