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Russia launches series of attacks on Ukraine's energy facilities

Guardian, 19 Oct 2022
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, says nearly a third of the country's power stations have been destroyed by Russian missile attacks in the past eight days. Russia has launched a series of attacks on Ukraine's energy supply, hitting facilities in Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv on Tuesday. In the Zhytomyr region, the governor says 11 settlements have no electricity after a missile attack on a thermal power plant. Ukraine's energy minister told the BBC his country needs international support to 'close the sky', while authorities are doing everything they can to repair facilities before winter
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