Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Russia attacked the Sloviansk thermal plant in the partially occupied Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, which last night experienced one of the most massive waves of Russian bombing against the energy system in recent years months.

“Just now, a couple of hours ago, there was an attack on the Sloviansk thermal power plant, an attack with Russian bombs. Unfortunately, two people died,” he said during his daily address to the nation. “There are wounded. This is purely terrorism. Ordinary people don't fight like this, and there should be an appropriate response from the world,” he stressed.

Attack on the Energy Grid

Zelensky explained that energy sector workers are working hard to eliminate the consequences of last night's Russian attack in various regions of the country, from Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia in the south to Vinnytsia (central Ukraine) and Ivano-Frankivsk in the west.

“The attack was complex, coordinated, and meticulously calculated. There were missiles, including ballistic and aeroballistic missiles: 52 missiles in total. More than 600 attack drones, of which 400 were Shahed (kamikaze drones),” the Ukrainian president summarized, providing Air Force data.

As a result of the nighttime attack, power, water, and heating outages have occurred in areas of regions such as Vinnytsia in central Ukraine. Meanwhile, scheduled power outages to ration consumption, in response to the generation deficit caused by the wave of massive Russian attacks on the system this fall, continue across virtually the entire country.