Ukraine: Millions without power after wave of Russian strikes | BBC News

Apr 06, 2024

Russia has attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure with drones and missiles, leaving around a million people without

power

and at least five dead. Ukraine's state hydroelectric company said a Russian attack hit Ukraine's largest dam in Zapia, but there was no risk of a breach. Russia says the air

strikes

were to avenge Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory, let's talk to a correspondent in Europe, Sarah RSford, who is on C for us, tell us more about these targeted attacks, Sarah, well this was a massive attack by overnight from Russia, it's the biggest one we've had here in a long time. Quite some time ago a combination of missiles and drones fired by Russia they say were targeting energy infrastructure here and certainly there were a number of hits on electrical facilities,

power

plants across the country, now missiles and drones have been fired all over Ukraine.

Cities in the north, southeast and west of this entire country were attacked. We know that the Second City of Ukraine in the north of this country has almost completely lost power; in fact, even the aerial lightning systems there, the centralized ones, don't work because of the energy. There is a blackout and people are told to receive notification of new missile attacks on their phones. The traffic lights are down. The water is interrupted. It's the same in other cities. In Ukraine we know that the Zapia power plant, the giant hydroelectric plant, is the largest. in the country that was also hit by several missiles, officials here have told us that there is no danger of the dam breaking, but obviously this is an extremely worrying attack for Ukraine, remember that the civil infrastructure here has been attacked for This whole war, if you remember the first winter of this war, it was one of the cars that they called, if you will, from Russia, they hit the power plants over and over again in the coldest time of the year.