Ukraine tries this Sunday to restore electricity supply and heating after another wave of Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure, which reduced its generation capacity to zero.
Russia has intensified its attacks in recent months and early Saturday morning again launched hundreds of drones against energy facilities across the country. The attacks disrupted electricity, heat and water supplies in several cities, and state energy company Centerenergo said its generating capacity “fell to zero.”
“An unprecedented number of missiles and an untold number of drones – several per minute – attacked the same thermal plants that we had restored after the devastating 2024 attack“Centerenergo indicated in a statement.
The state operator of the electrical transmission system, Ukrenergo, noted for its part that on Sunday it will have to cut electricity between 8 and 16 hours a day in most regions to carry out repairs.
For her part, the Ukrainian Energy Minister described the night of the attack as “one of the most difficult” since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. “The enemy inflicted a massive attack with ballistic missiles, which are extremely difficult to avoid. It is difficult to remember such a high number of direct attacks on energy facilities since the beginning of the invasion,” he told local radio station United News.
Russian regions in darkness
Several Russian regions bordering Ukraine were affected by overnight Ukrainian attacks on energy supplies. According to authorities in the western Russian region of Belgorod, around 20,000 homes and several roads were without electricity this Sunday (11/09/2025). The regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, declared on the online service Telegram that the “electricity and heating network” of the regional capital of the same name had suffered “serious damage.”
The governor of the Kursk region, also bordering Ukraine, reported on Telegram that a fire had broken out in one of the energy installations in the town of Korenevowhich caused a power outage in ten locations. According to Governor Alexander Gusev, in the Voronezh region, located southeast of Moscow and also bordering Ukraine to the south, a fire broke out in a heating plant.