Russia wants blackout in Ukraine as winter comes — Zelenskyy
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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says Russia is trying to cut electricity and heating to civilians ahead of winter. He also called the US president's waiver of new sanctions on Moscow a boost for Vladimir Putin.
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Russia is stepping up its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in a bid to cut electricity and heating in the country as winter approaches, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday.
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His remarks come as Moscow intensifies its attacks on civilian targets in the capital, Kyiv, and elsewhere, with key observers saying its objective is to render the country virtually unlivable.
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In a post on social media platform X, Zelenskyy said Russia had just carried out one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine's energy sector since it began its full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.
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"More than 15 critical power generation and transmission facilities were targeted across different regions of Ukraine," he wrote.
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"Restoration work is ongoing, with all necessary services and all available resources of Ukrainian energy companies involved," he added.
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Zelenskyy said that Russia was planning to leave Ukrainian citizens in the cold this winter.
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"Russia is trying to cause a blackout in Ukraine — right before winter. Russia is trying to leave millions of our people without electricity and heating," he wrote, calling on allies to put pressure on Moscow to stop this happening.
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He said Russia had "expanded its campaign against the energy system" and was trying "to stretch Ukraine's reserves and repair capacity as thinly as possible."
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The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, said on Saturday that its forces had attacked several infrastructure targets in Ukraine overnight.
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Among those named was an electricity substation in the northwestern city of Zhytomyr.
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However, it also said Ukraine's largest steelworks, in the city of Kryvyi Rih, had been hit, saying the facility supplied steel products to the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.
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It said another steel plant in Zaporizhzhia, a city near the front line, had also been struck.
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Ukrainian authorities have also said that one person — an ambulance driver — was killed and 19 others injured, including a child, in a Russian airstrike on Kherson in southern Ukraine.
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Russian state news agency TASS has also reported the death of one woman as a result of Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia's Belgorod region that also injured a man.
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Meanwhile, Zelenskyy also reacted to US President Donald Trump's decision to waive a package of new sanctions on Moscow, saying the move would only encourage Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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"A US sanctions blackout, easing pressure on the aggressor, financial rewards for Putin — all of this only encourages him to keep attacking," Zelenskyy said.
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On Friday, Trump signed an executive order that waived sweeping US sanctions and tariffs targeting Russia's energy revenues, two days before they were due to take effect.
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The waiver has been hailed by a Russian presidential envoy as a "historic moment."
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"The Trump administration's suspension of the [Lindsey] Graham Act is an important and truly historic moment," Kirill Dmitriev said on social media.
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Dmitriev said the act, named for the late US senator who sponsored the bill, "would have caused "serious damage first and foremost to the US economy and global markets."
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Trump's move came as he increasingly criticizes Zelenskyy, fueling speculation that the US leader is siding with Moscow in the conflict.
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