Key facts
- Zelensky said Russian strikes hit energy infrastructure in four regions overnight on Saturday into Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
- The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said an overnight strike killed two people, including a 13-year-old girl, in the Vinnytsia region.
- Zelensky said Ukraine struck a missile fuel producer in Russia's Rostov region, causing a fire and damaging four production facilities.
- The Dnipropetrovsk region governor said more than 60,000 customers were still without power by early evening despite repairs.
- Zelensky said Russia was trying to exploit a shortage of ballistic missile interceptors and that Ukraine requests Patriot missiles daily.
- The Kherson ceasefire was brokered with help from US First Lady Melania Trump and Pope Leo XIV, and was due to end at 22:59 Ukrainian time on Sunday.
Russian forces struck energy infrastructure in four Ukrainian regions overnight on Saturday into Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. Repair crews worked through the day, and the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region said most customers there had connections restored by early evening, though more than 60,000 remained without power.
A separate overnight strike killed two people, including a 13-year-old girl, in the Vinnytsia region, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Zelensky said Ukraine struck a missile fuel producer in Russia's Rostov region, causing a fire and damaging four production facilities.
Zelensky said in a social media post that the intensity of Russian strikes had been extremely high over the past week and that Russia was trying to take maximum advantage of a shortage of ballistic missile interceptors. He said Ukraine communicated its need for Patriot missiles to the US, Europe and other partners every day.
Regular attacks on energy infrastructure have led to emergency power cuts across Ukraine, with electricity cut off for most of the day even in Kyiv, and water supplies also disrupted.
A localized ceasefire in the Kherson region was due to end at 22:59 Ukrainian time (21:00 GMT) on Sunday. The pause, which started on Tuesday, was brokered with help from US First Lady Melania Trump and Pope Leo XIV. It was initially confined to Oleshky, occupied by Russia since the first days of the February 2022 invasion, and later expanded across the wider Kherson region.
Oleshky had been hemmed in by the Dnipro river and Russian forces, with exit routes mined and subject to drone attack, and residents faced shortages of food, water and electricity. The truce allowed residents to evacuate, and Ukrainians trapped in the city were reunited with relatives on Saturday. Evacuees traveled through Russian-occupied territory to southern Russia, flew to Belarus and were then driven across Ukraine's northern border. Human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said the oldest evacuee was 94 and the youngest was one.