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Russian overnight bombardment on Kyiv used nearly 600 drones and over 40 cruise missiles, killing civilians and heavily damaging residential areas.
Zelenskyy said Russian shelling was preventing restoration of a power line needed to cool the reactors and prevent a meltdown. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, said it was working with both sides to restore the external power line. Rafael Grossi said there was no immediate danger as long as diesel generators remained in operation, providing emergency power for the facility.
Explosions were heard in cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro, late on Saturday, as Russian forces launched another large-scale drone attack on the country, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing officials. A Russian strike in the town of Putyvl in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region killed one person and wounded several others, regional Governor Oleh Hryhorov said. A nine-year-old child was among those injured.
Russian drone attacks and shelling killed three people and injured five others in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram. Two people were killed in Russian attacks on the Polohivskyi district, as Russian forces launched 578 attacks on 18 settlements in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Separate Russian attacks also killed one person in Kherson, one person in the Kyiv region and one person in Donetsk, local officials reported, according to the Kyiv Independent news outlet.