"Power was restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv on Saturday, a day after Russia launched major attacks on the Ukrainian power grid that caused blackouts across much of the country, and European leaders agreed to proceed toward using hundreds of billions of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine's war effort. Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, said Saturday that "the main work to restore the power supply" had been completed,"
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address Friday that Russia was taking advantage of the world being "almost entirely focused on the prospect of establishing peace in the Middle East," and called for strengthening Ukraine's air defense systems and tighter sanctions on Russia. "Russian assets must be fully used to strengthen our defense and ensure recovery," he said in the video, posted to X."
Major Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, damaged residential buildings and triggered widespread blackouts across swaths of Ukraine. DTEK reported that main restoration work returned power to over 800,000 Kyiv residents, though some localized outages persisted. Russia said the strikes targeted energy facilities supplying Ukraine's military and used Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and strike drones. Ukraine described the attack as one of the largest concentrated strikes on energy infrastructure, noting repeated attempts each year to cripple the grid before winter. Leaders called for strengthened air defenses, tighter sanctions and use of frozen Russian assets for recovery and defense.
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