LONDON — Not less than 600,000 individuals had been with out energy early Wednesday in Ukraine, after Russia launched an aerial assault that struck vitality infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated.
“A focused Russian ballistic missile strike particularly towards vitality infrastructure — the very infrastructure coated by the ceasefire introduced by the American President,” the Ukrainian president said on social media.
Victoria Deineko holds her daughter Mia whereas standing in entrance of a multi-story residential constructing broken in a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026.
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President Donald Trump said on Sunday that either side had agreed to an “vitality ceasefire.”
The outages on Wednesday could unfold farther, the president stated, as there may be “vital” harm to at the least 26 energy amenities and 4 others within the gasoline and oil sector.
Victoria Deineko, her husband Ievhen Deineko and their daughter Mia have a look at a multi-story residential constructing broken in a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026.
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The assault included some 39 ballistic missiles and greater than 120 drones, officers stated, with many focused Kyiv and its surrounding space.
Russia’s Ministry of Protection stated in its had carried out a “large strike by ground-launched high-precision weapons and long-range drones towards communication and vitality infrastructure amenities” in Kyiv and Kharkiv.
Katarina Mathernova, the European Union’s ambassador to Ukraine, stated greater than a dozen explosions had been heard earlier than daybreak within the Kyiv.
“A nine-storey condo constructing was hit within the capital. Fireplace unfold via individuals’s houses,” Mathernova said early on Wednesday. “Rescuers helped residents down ladders whereas others stood outdoors, watching their constructing burn.”
A broken multi-story residential constructing is seen on fireplace after a Russian missile strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026.
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Mathernova and Ukrainian officers stated an early warning system, which detect aerial assaults and permit for higher protection, appeared to not have labored for a second night time in a row.
“That lacking warning means lacking time,” Mathernova stated. “Time to wake a baby. To get downstairs. To succeed in a shelter.”
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko on the website of an condo constructing broken by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 14, 2026.
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Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, described the in a single day strike on Kyiv as “large,” saying at the least one particular person had been killed within the capital.
Ukrainian additionally struck Russian army in a single day, in keeping with the Ukrainian Basic Workers, which stated it focused websites that Russia was recognized to make use of to launch drones.
“Within the space of Donetsk, a website utilized by the enemy for the storage, preparation and launch of assault UAVs was hit,” Ukraine said. “Systematic strikes towards such websites are geared toward decreasing the russian aggressor’s means to strike civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine.”
