Russian Strikes Leave Hundreds of Thousands Without Power

Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure overnight into Nov. 1 left hundreds of thousands of households without electricity, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as repair crews worked to restore power across affected areas. Zelensky said the strikes hit energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi regions. He attributed the outages to the attacks and said the assault was particularly intense. Ukraine’s Energy Ministry, in a Nov. 1 morning update, reported outages in eight regions: Zhytomyr, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Cherkasy and Kharkiv. The ministry reported nearly 100,000 consumers without electricity in Dnipropetrovsk region and more than 650 settlements without power in Zhytomyr region. It described conditions in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk as especially difficult. The ministry’s figures refer to its morning update; Zelensky’s statement described the broader impact as hundreds of thousands of households. The reports do not establish a final, comparable national outage total. On Oct. 31, Zelensky had said about 200,000 homes in Dnipropetrovsk region and more than 80,000 in Kyiv region were without electricity. That...