Russian attacks in Ukraine kill at least 8, cut power to 1 million

What the report says

Russian strikes across Ukraine on Friday killed at least eight people and wounded 60, according to Ukrainian officials cited by Al Jazeera and Reuters. The attacks hit nine regions, including Kharkiv in the east, Kramatorsk in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and the northwestern regions of Volyn and Rivne, as Moscow continued its campaign against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

Officials said the dead included two people in Kharkiv, where three districts were struck, two in Kramatorsk, one in Dnipropetrovsk, one in Volyn, and one in Rivne. The report also said drones and other munitions damaged a food-processing site in Volyn, a customs terminal and trucks in Kovel, and a shopping centre in Rivne, while a shopping centre in Sumy was also hit. Several of the injured were reported near the front line and in areas bordering Poland.

The attacks caused major power outages, leaving more than one million people without electricity before repair crews began restoring supply, Ukraine’s energy ministry said. In Volyn, about 370,000 households lost power, and officials warned outages in Lutsk could last at least 24 hours. Large parts of Rivne were also blacked out.

Al Jazeera also reported that Russia’s military chief told President Vladimir Putin the forces needed to continue the aerial campaign. Separately, the UN said civilian casualties in Ukraine had risen sharply, underscoring the wider human toll of the war and the vulnerability of energy and civilian infrastructure.