‘Massive’ Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least six, damages power sites — SkimNews
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- Russia's Defence Ministry confirmed a 'massive' strike on Ukrainian communications and energy infrastructure, killing at least six people and leaving over half a million without power (per Interfax).
- Targets in Kyiv and Kharkiv included two heat and power plants in the capital, a thermal power plant supplying the Ukrainian military in the southeast, and a Kyiv data centre used for intelligence gathering on Russian forces.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine received no early warning from Western partners about the ballistic missile attack on the capital and accused Russia of deliberately violating Trump's 'energy ceasefire' with 'ostentatious disrespect toward the United States.'
- Starlink imposed an overnight speed limit on terminals in motion (above 160 km/h) without notifying Ukraine, disrupting combat missions, according to presidential technology adviser Sergiy Beskrestnov.
- Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported air defences downed nearly 500 drones heading toward the Russian capital overnight, with Russia's military later putting the total at 902 downed across regions including Rostov and Saratov.
Why it matters: Russia's strike landed three days after Trump's 'energy ceasefire' announcement, publicly flouting the US-brokered deal and forcing Trump to choose between enforcement and watching it collapse. Zelenskyy separately flagged that Western partners failed to warn of the ballistic attack and that SpaceX quietly restricted Starlink speeds — two visible cracks in the support architecture underpinning Ukraine's defence.
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