Russia hits energy facilities in 10 Ukrainian regions, halting three DTEK power plants and forcing emergency power cuts

Russia attacked Ukraine's energy system overnight and on Tuesday morning 3 November. This report draws on Interfax-Ukraine, the Kyiv Independent, the Guardian and AP (in copy published by NBC News). ## Power cuts across the country Energy facilities in 10 regions – Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Odesa, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi and Kharkiv – came under attack, the Energy Ministry said, Interfax-Ukraine reports. "Over the past 24 hours alone, the enemy purposefully attacked energy infrastructure more than 20 times," the ministry said. It said the situation was most difficult in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv regions, and emergency power cuts were applied in Kyiv and the Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy and Kharkiv regions. DTEK said three of its thermal power plants stopped generating and grid infrastructure in the Odesa region was damaged; its chief executive, Maxim Timchenko, called it one of the "most serious attacks ever" on the company's facilities, the Kyiv Independent reports. Vitalii Zaichenko, head of the state grid operator Ukrenergo, told the Kyiv Independent that officials had recorded one of the largest waves of Russian ballistic missiles aimed at critical infrastructure. ## Zelensky's figures Zelensky said Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles "across nine regions", the Guardian and AP report; the Energy Ministry's list of regions where energy facilities were attacked has 10. "The Russians think America won't notice this signal of theirs," Zelensky said in a post that, AP notes, pointed to the barrage coinciding with the US elections. In the Kharkiv region, a combined missile and drone attack wounded at least 62 people, local authorities said, and a medical facility was damaged; more than 200 patients were moved to other facilities, regional head Oleh Syniehubov said, the Guardian and AP report. The bombing of an aid centre in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, a day earlier is covered in a separate report.