In the southern city of Odesa, nearly 300,000 people have been left without water, according to Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba. Heating has also been cut off in around 200 buildings.
In the capital, Kyiv, power outages affected 2,600 high-rise buildings, leaving approximately 3,500 structures without heating, on top of the 1,100 buildings already impacted by previous attacks, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
In Dnipro, in the country’s southeast, four people were injured, including a baby and a four-year-old child, according to regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha.
The Ukrainian energy company DTEK confirmed that one of its thermal power plants suffered “extensive damage” in the attacks, though it did not specify the location. The company noted this was the eleventh large-scale assault on its plants since October 2025.
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, condemned the strikes, arguing they undermine ongoing US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war. “Russia must be forced to take diplomacy seriously and de-escalate,” Sybiha wrote on social media. “This can only be achieved through unity, strength, and increased pressure on Moscow.”
The attacks mark the latest escalation in Russia’s ongoing offensive against Ukraine, leaving many civilians in freezing conditions without essential utilities in the middle of winter.
