"Russia launches attacks Ukraine's energy infrastructure almost every day. On Tuesday night, Russian bombs struck the city of Kharkiv, resulting in power cuts across three districts. Attacks on October 10, meanwhile, simultaneously damaged electricity and gas infrastructure in several different Ukrainian regions. Russia has launched massive attacks on Ukraine's electricity grid in recent years, but has yet to succeed in causing major power outages."
"Experts say that this fall, as the weather grows colder, Russia is targeting the Ukraine's gas supply and pipeline network. The upcoming winter could become one of the hardest for Ukraine since Russia first launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. Central heating systems have already been switched on in Ukraine's Rivne, Lviv and Khmelnytskyi regions, as well as in the capital, Kyiv. It should be said that so far, however, only communal facilities are being supplied with heat."
"In Kherson, most households with their own boilers fired them up on October 1, while in the Kharkiv region, heaters won't be switched until early November. At the same time, there will be no district heating in some cities of the Kharkiv region, particularly in Kupyansk, as the head of the regional military administration Oleh Syniehubov told Ukrainian radio. This is due to targeted Russian attacks on energy facilities in the area."
Russian forces launch near-daily attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, striking electricity and gas facilities across multiple regions. Recent strikes hit Kharkiv, causing power cuts in three districts, and on October 10 damaged electricity and gas infrastructure across regions. Large-scale attacks have targeted the electricity grid for years without causing nationwide outages, but recent strikes have paralyzed more than half of Ukraine's gas production facilities. As temperatures fall, Russia is focusing on gas supply and pipelines, raising the risk of a hard winter. Central heating has been activated in some regions and Kyiv, but many households remain without full heating.
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