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Russia Launches Massive Drone Attack on Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure Ahead of Winter Season
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On the night of August 26–27, Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. Targets included energy and gas transmission facilities in the Sumy, Poltava, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
This was reported by Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy reported on August 27.
In Sumy, around 1 a.m., drones damaged equipment at a key substation, leaving a large part of the city and industrial consumers without electricity. In Poltava region, Russian forces carried out a concentrated strike on gas transmission infrastructure, causing severe damage.
Emergency and rescue services are working at the sites of impact, while energy and gas specialists are making every effort to restore supply as quickly as possible.
“We view Russia’s attacks as a continuation of its deliberate policy to destroy Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure ahead of the heating season. This is yet another act of energy terror directed against the civilian population,” the Ministry of Energy emphasized.
This is not the first time Russia has deliberately targeted Ukraine’s energy network. Previously, Ukraine faced a large-scale combined missile and drone assault, when Russian forces launched Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles from MiG-31K jets and Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Explosions were reported across multiple regions, including Odesa, Kherson, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Lviv, Cherkasy, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Chernihiv. At the time, Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko confirmed that the country’s energy infrastructure was a primary target of the strikes.
Earlier, Russia launched a massive overnight missile and drone assault on Ukraine, striking energy facilities in six regions—Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Vinnytsia. The attack caused significant damage to both critical and civilian infrastructure.
