Russia attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Christmas Day, causing widespread power outages and leaving hundreds of thousands without essential services. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy denounced the attack as 'deliberate' and a response to calls for a Christmas ceasefire.
Russia launched a Christmas Day attack on Ukraine's energy system, leaving more than half a million consumers without heating, water, and electricity. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack, the 13th large-scale assault on the country's grid in 2024, “deliberate” and not a coincidence. “What could be more inhuman?” he wrote on X.
About 50 of the 70 missiles fired in the attack were intercepted, along with a “significant” portion of the more than 100 attack drones deployed, Zelenskyy added. This year Ukrainians celebrated Christmas Day on December 25 for the second time, after switching to the western Gregorian calendar last year. The decision to stop celebrating Christmas on January 7 in line with the Orthodox calendar was made by Kyiv to break with Russian influence. Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, told Ukraine’s national TV news that the attack had left more than half a million consumers without heating, water and electricity. Temperatures across Ukraine are around freezing point. Heating supplies were also cut in some areas of Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, in the west and south of the country. Ukraine’s energy grid operator, Ukrenergo, urged consumers to limit consumption by not switching on multiple appliances at once, adding that the system was still recovering from the previous Russian attack on December 13.Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said that its power stations had been damaged and one of its long-term employees killed. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andriy Sybiha, said on X that the attack reflects Russian president Vladimir Putin’s response to “those who spoke about illusionary ‘Christmas ceasefire’.” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said last week that Zelenskyy had rejected his proposal for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange on Orthodox Christmas, January
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