Russia launches attack on Ukraine’s power sector in sign of possible escalation

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Russia launches attack on Ukraine’s power sector in sign of possible escalation
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Many Ukrainians were plunged into darkness across several cities and at least five people were killed.

Smoke and fire rise over the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant after Russian attacks in Dnipro, Ukraine

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, sustained the most damage, officials said, and the attack came a day after Russia had fired 31 missiles into the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. When Mr Putin invaded in 2022, he called it a “special military operation”, and his officials have mostly eschewed the word “war”.

An emergency service psychologist, left, comforts a woman at the site of a Russian air attack in Zaporizhzhia

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