Russian winter strike leaves nearly 800K homes without power and heat in Ukraine’s Dnipro region

Nearly 800,000 homes successful Ukraine were near without energy and heating Thursday greeting aft a Russian overnight onslaught connected vigor infrastructure, the country’s acting vigor curate said, arsenic powerfulness crews raced to reconstruct service.

Artem Nekrasov said successful comments published connected the Ukrainian Energy Ministry’s authoritative Telegram transmission that the Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia regions were astir wholly without powerfulness pursuing the Russian strike.

"Repair enactment is ongoing to instrumentality airy and vigor to consumers arsenic soon arsenic possible," Nekrasov said.

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Local residents basal connected the structure of a damaged residential gathering pursuing a drone onslaught successful Dnipro connected Jan. 7, 2026. (Mykola Synelnykov/AFP via Getty Images)

Power has since been restored successful the Zaporizhzhia region, portion hundreds of thousands of homes successful Dnipro stay without energy and heat.

Ukrainian officials urged residents to bounds the usage of high-consumption electrical appliances to forestall renewed outages arsenic repairs continue.

Nekrasov said adverse upwind conditions besides near parts of respective different regions without power, including Chernihiv, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia.

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Residents locomotion past flat buildings without energy during a four-day blackout successful Vyshgorod, adjacent Kyiv, connected Dec. 30, 2025, pursuing Russian rocket and drone strikes. (Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP via Getty Images)

The powerfulness outages are unfolding amid freezing temperatures successful Kyiv, wherever forecasts amusement overnight lows nether 20 degrees.

"There is perfectly nary subject rationale successful specified strikes connected the vigor assemblage and infrastructure that permission radical without energy and heating successful wintertime," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday connected X.

"This is Russia’s warfare specifically against our people, against beingness successful Ukraine – an effort to interruption Ukraine."

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses with U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Kushner earlier talks astatine the U.S. ambassador’s residence connected Jan. 6, 2026, successful Paris, France. (Thomas Padilla/AP)

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The strikes travel conscionable days aft Zelenskyy met successful Paris with U.S. peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to sermon continued diplomatic efforts to extremity Russia’s astir four-year war.

Zelenskyy said the talks focused connected information guarantees, monitoring a imaginable ceasefire, and rebuilding Ukraine arsenic portion of a broader model for peace.