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Posted on 01/19/2026 9:02:45 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Russia launched a barrage of drone strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight on Monday, cutting off power in five regions across the country amid freezing temperatures and high demand, Ukrainian officials said.
The Ukrainian air force said that Russian troops had launched 145 drones. Air defense units shot down 126 of them, it said.
"As of this morning, consumers in Sumy, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions are without power," the energy ministry said in a statement. "Emergency repair work is underway if the security situation allows."
In the southern Odesa region, energy and gas infrastructure was damaged, the regional governor said, adding that one person was hurt in the attack.
DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, said its energy facility in Odesa was "substantially" damaged, knocking out power for 30,800 households.
A local power grid company in northern Chernihiv region said that five important energy facilities were damaged, leaving tens of thousands of consumers without power.
Russia also hit Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv with missiles on Monday morning, significantly damaging a critical infrastructure facility, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Moscow has stepped up a winter campaign of strikes on the Ukrainian energy system, including generation, electricity transmission and gas production facilities, amid freezing temperatures that complicate repair works.
The attacks have caused long blackouts.
Ukraine declared an energy emergency last week as its grid crumbled due to accumulated wartime damage and a new targeted wave of Russian bombardments.
Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Monday the government would implement projects to improve electricity transmission from the western part of the country to its power-hungry east.
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As Henry Jones said, “Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky.”
So it is with nature. Mans’ discomfort and willing to change can happen in many ways. And the Russians were masters at using it. Napoleon found out about scorched earth.
No one ever wins a war by total destruction. Someone has to want to quit. So if it can be made uncomfortable enough, someone will.
wy69
To the last Ukrainian.
London, Brussels and Davos demand it.
Good. It is a war. Kinda like when hamas started one by murdering a bunch of women and children.
bkmk
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