Kyiv: A new wave of Russian aerial and missile assaults has plunged vast regions of eastern Ukraine into darkness, destroying key energy infrastructure and taking civilian lives just as winter sets in. Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that the entire Donetsk region had suffered “emergency power outages” following intense overnight strikes targeting power facilities and residential zones. The escalation marks yet another chapter in Moscow’s ongoing campaign to cripple Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and weaken civilian resilience.

Vadym Filashkin, the governor of Donetsk, confirmed that nearly all of the region had lost power after sustained Russian attacks on Saturday night. Energy networks, substations, and transformers were hit, cutting off electricity to hundreds of thousands o

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