'Vile attack' — Emergency power outages across Ukraine as Russia targets thermal power plants in mass missile, drone strike
Emergency workers outside a residential building struck overnight on Oct. 30, 2025, during a mass Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine)
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Emergency power outages were imposed on "all oblasts of Ukraine" due to yet another overnight mass Russian missile and drone attack targeting energy infrastructure, killing three people, and injuring at least 27 others, local authorities reported on Oct. 30.
Russian forces struck multiple thermal power plants in various regions of Ukraine, DTEK, the largest private energy company in Ukraine, said.
"The attacks caused fires at the facilities and resulted in damage to power plant equipment. Following the strikes, energy workers immediately began damage assessment and recovery operations," DTEK said.
According to DTEK, this marks the third major attack on the company's thermal power plants in a month. Three energy workers were injured in previous attacks.
"This attack is a bad blow in our efforts to keep power flowing this winter. Based on the intensity of attacks for the past two months, it is clear Russia is aiming for the complete destruction of Ukraine's energy system," CEO of DTEK, Maxim Timchenko, said.
"We call on Ukraine's allies to defeat them by ramping up supplies of replacement energy equipment, emergency funding to rebuild power stations, and rapidly reinforcing Ukraine's air defences," Timchenko added.
Hours after the attack, at 10:22 a.m. Kyiv time, state-owned energy grid operator Ukrenerg said that hourly power cuts were canceled throughout Ukraine, but they may resume within the next 24 hours.
At 8:30 a.m. Kyiv time, Ukrenergo said that electricity was available according to the schedule.
Air raid alerts were issued across the entire country overnight, with Ukraine's Air Force tracking Shahed-type drones, cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.
Russia launched 52 missiles, including nine ballistic missiles, and 653 drones of different types, according to the Air Force.
In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, residential buildings were damaged and two people were killed, 23 people, including six children, were injured as a result of the overnight Russian attack, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported.
In Vinnytsia Oblast, a seven-year-old girl was killed, four people were injured, according to local authorities. Critical infrastructure, residential buildings, and vehicles were also damaged.
A 36-year-old woman was injured in Boryspil, Kyiv Oblast, as a result of the drone attack, local authorities reported, adding that a fire broke out in a home, and residential buildings were damaged.
In Mykolaiv Oblast, power outages were reported as a result of the Russian attack. According to Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) some passenger trains in the Mykolaiv Olast are running with delays.
Explosions were also reported in Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts, far from the front lines in western Ukraine.
In Lviv Oblast, two energy infrastructure facilities were damaged, Governor Maksym Kozytskyi reported.
Air defenses were active in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv reported, adding that there could be interruptions to electricity supply amid Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack, saying that there were "many vile strikes on energy facilities and civilian life across the regions."
"Russia continues its terrorist war against life itself, and it's crucial that every such vile attack on civilians boomerangs back on Russia with concrete consequences – sanctions and real pressure," Zelensky wrote on X.
Russia regularly targets Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure in drone and missile attacks as Moscow continues to wage its war against Ukraine.
Russian drones have hunted and displaced civilians from their homes near the front line in Ukraine, Reuters reported on Oct. 27, citing a new U.N. inquiry presented to the General Assembly.
As a result of Russian attacks on Oct. 26, at least nine civilians were killed and 45 others injured, regional authorities reported.
