Russia attacks leave two dead, thousands without power in Ukraine
The northern region, which shares borders with Russia and Belarus, had a pre-war population of nearly a million people.
Two residents of Zaporizhzhia were killed and much of Chernihiv region was plunged into darkness after Russian strikes, Ukrainian officials reported.
Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said the morning attack on the city claimed the lives of a man and a woman and wounded six other people, among them two children.
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In neighboring Chernihiv, Governor Viacheslav Chaus said crews were working to repair damage from a drone strike that struck an energy facility.
The northern region, which shares borders with Russia and Belarus, had a pre-war population of nearly a million people.
Throughout the conflict, Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukraine’s power infrastructure, triggering widespread, hours-long blackouts across the country.
This winter Chernihiv suffered severe outages during what officials described as Moscow’s largest bombing campaign in the four-year war against Ukraine’s electricity grid.