Hours before Abu Dhabi talks, Russia hits five major substations across Ukraine; at least nine killed in a day
Russian strikes overnight targeted 10 Ukrainian regions and five key substations that move power between regions, causing outages from Dnipropetrovsk to Chernihiv; Zelensky says Moscow is trying to split Ukraine along the Dnipro.
Russia attacked 10 Ukrainian regions overnight into Tuesday, 10 November, hitting five major energy substations that transmit electricity between regions, Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said, as reported by The Guardian. The substations hit were in the Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia and Kirovohrad regions.
Outages and casualties
Grid operator Ukrenergo reported power outages in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions, The Independent reported. Russian attacks killed at least nine people and injured 39 across Ukraine over the past day, according to the Kyiv Independent, cited by The Guardian.
Pressure before the talks
The strikes came just hours before the first trilateral talks with the US since February opened in Abu Dhabi. President Volodymyr Zelensky had accused Russia of intensifying attacks to put pressure on Kyiv at the negotiating table, and said Moscow is “trying to divide Ukraine along the Dnipro River” with strikes on bridges and the power grid, Meduza reported. With winter approaching, Russia has renewed its campaign against Ukraine’s energy system.
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