An overnight Russian drone and missile attack that targeted critical infrastructure, including energy sites and railways, triggered heating and water outages for thousands of Ukrainian households, Kyiv said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The latest wave of aerial strikes comes as Ukrainian negotiators are set to meet in Florida with American envoys for a third straight day of talks on a plan to end the almost four-year war.<\/p>\n
Overnight, Russia launched 653 drones and 51 missiles at Ukraine, Kyiv’s air force said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main targets of these strikes, once again, were energy facilities. Russia’s aim is to inflict suffering on millions of Ukrainians,\u201d President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media.<\/p>\n
A Russian drone strike hit and \u201cburned down the main railway station building in Fastiv,\u201d a city around 70 kilometres (43 miles) southwest of Kyiv, Zelensky said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were no casualties, but suburban train traffic has been disrupted,\u201d Ukraine’s state rail operator Ukrzaliznytsya added.<\/p>\n
The drones and missiles also targeted energy facilities in the Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions, Kyiv said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the Odesa region, 9,500 households remain without heat supply and 34,000 households remain without water supply due to damage,\u201d Restoration Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said.<\/p>\n
An emergency coordination meeting of ministers was convened in the wake of the strikes, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the ongoing elimination of the consequences of this attack, additional rolling power outages will be required across the country\u201d to stabilize the system while repairs continued, she added.<\/p>\n
Despite the U.S.-led push to end the conflict, Russia has routinely targeted Ukraine’s power and heating grid since its February 2022 full-scale invasion began, destroying key civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An overnight Russian drone and missile attack that targeted critical infrastructure, including energy sites and railways, triggered heating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[35,2000,299,657,753],"class_list":{"0":"post-615948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-energy","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-ukraine","12":"tag-ukraine-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115672724541340881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615948","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=615948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}