Ukraine’s state-owned electricity transmission company, Ukrenergo, reported that the scale of the damage yesterday to power facilities in western Ukraine is similar to, or possibly worse than, that of the initial Oct. 10-11 attacks. Regional Ukrainian officials report that a series of attacks across Ukraine on Oct. 22 left residents in parts of Odessa, Cherkasy, Kropyvnytskyi, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi and Lutsk without electricity. Dnipropetrovsk’s Governor Valentin Reznichenko reported that power lines were severed, leaving parts of the town of Nikopol without electricity. Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine reported losing power. The head of the Odessa Oblast’s regional military administration, Maksym Marchenko, reported that areas were without electricity following two missile strikes on an energy infrastructure facility. Internet outages also occurred across Ukraine.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on last night’s broadcast said that Russia’s “very wide” barrage of missiles and drones hit Volyn in the northwest, Odessa, Mykolaiv and Zaporozhye in the south, Rivne in the west, Kirovohrad and Dnipropetrovsk in the center. CNN reported that Ukraine had rolling power cuts, disabled water pumping stations and widespread internet outages; but very little civilian injuries or deaths. “The casualties are relatively few but the damage inordinate. Power infrastructure is an obvious, static target.…” Perhaps CNN was disappointed they had no bloody shirt to wave, but to their credit, they reported that much.
