September 2022 On 11 September, after Ukrainian successes during
its counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast, Russian missiles struck the
Kharkiv TEC-5, the second largest power plant in Ukraine located near
Kharkiv, leaving parts of
Donetsk,
Dnipropetrovsk,
Kharkiv,
Poltava and
Sumy Oblast without power. Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted the "
Without You" speech on social media in condemnation of the attack, stating that Ukrainians "will be with gas, light, water and food ... and WITHOUT you [referring to Russia]." Russian forces hit the Karachun dam on the outskirts of
Kryvyi Rih with up to eight cruise missiles on 14 September, damaging the gates, hydro-mechanical equipment, crane, and administrative buildings, and causing the river
Inhulets to overflow its banks. Analysts said that such attacks are intended to suppress resistance by the Ukrainian population, and this one specifically attempted to damage Ukrainian pontoon bridges downstream.
October 2022 10 October in Kyiv after Russian missile strikes on 10 October 2022 On 10 October 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine with a wave of 84 cruise missiles and 24 suicide drones. Russian missiles struck 14 regions of Ukraine, with the capital Kyiv being the most targeted. Explosions were reported in
Lviv,
Ternopil and
Zhytomyr in
Western Ukraine;
Dnipro and
Kremenchuk in
Central Ukraine; Zaporizhzhia in
Southern Ukraine; and
Kharkiv in
Eastern Ukraine. The missiles targeted key energy infrastructure and military command facilities, but missiles also hit civilian areas, including a university and a playground in Kyiv.
Ukrenergo reported that power supply interruptions in some cities and towns. Mayor of Kyiv
Vitali Klitschko said there were several explosions in
Shevchenkivskyi and
Solomianskyi District. Advisor head of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs,
Anton Herashchenko, said one of the missile struck near the Monument to
Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Around 8:18 am
local time, a missile struck the
Kyiv Glass Bridge. Explosions damaged Kyiv central railway station, but the station continued to operate. The strikes damaged Ukrainian cultural and educational buildings, including the
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the
Khanenko Museum,
Taras Shevchenko National Museum and several other museums. after the strike In the city of Zaporizhzhia, an apartment block was destroyed and a kindergarten was damaged. As a result of rocket strikes on Lviv's energy facilities, the city went into a blackout. Hot water also stopped running in apartment buildings. Three strikes targeted the power grid in Kharkiv. In some areas, water and electricity were cut off. In the centre of
Dnipro, the bodies of people killed at an industrial site on the city's outskirts were found, with windows in the area blown out and glass strewn on the street. Strikes were carried out in
Khmelnytskyi and
Zhytomyr, as well as in
Ivano-Frankivsk,
Ternopil, Electricity and water supplies were disrupted in Poltava, and there were blackouts in the region.
11–31 October On 11 October, seven people were killed and 49 injured by missile strikes on Kyiv. The Kyiv Metro's red line and the interchange node at
Teatralna–
Golden Gate were closed. Most underground stations continued to operate as bomb shelters. Areas struck by missiles included a playground. On 14 October,
Samsung Electronics confirmed that its Ukrainian branch office suffered minor damage when a missile exploded near the office at 101 Tower in Lva Tolstoho street; there were no reported casualties. A Russian missile damaged the
German consulate at Kyiv, although no casualties were reported since the building was vacant. On 17 October four civilians were killed by a drone strike in Kyiv. Five people were reported killed and eight were injured in the Zaporizhzhia region. On 22 October Russia launched 33 cruise missiles against Ukraine's power grid. Ukraine's air force command said 18 missiles were shot down. Ukrenergo stated "the scale of the damage is comparable or may exceed the consequences of the attack on October 10–12". The missile strikes cut off electricity for 1.5 million Ukrainians. On 27 October missile strikes reduced the country's energy capacity further, with the effect of extending the blackout periods in Kyiv,
Zhytomyr and
Chensky, and northern
Chernihiv regions. On 31 October another mass missile strike against Ukraine's power grid left around 80% of Kyiv residents without running water. Russian
Tu-95 and
Tu-160 bombers launched Kh-101 and Kh-555 missiles from the
Caspian and the
Rostov Oblast regions.
3M-54 Kalibr missiles were launched from the
Black Sea. On 17 November Russia launched a series of missile strikes targeting Ukrainian gas production facilities and the
PA Pivdenmash missile plant. Explosions were reported in Kyiv,
Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and
Kharkiv. On 23 November Ukrainian armed forces reported that around 51 of 70 Russian missiles were intercepted by air defences. Kyiv's mayor
Vitali Klitschko said around 21 out of 31 missiles launched to Kyiv were shot down. Missiles targeted civilian energy infrastructure and also struck apartment blocks and hospitals, killing at least six people. One of the missiles struck a hospital maternity ward at
Vilniansk, killing a newborn baby. The attacks on the power grid caused more than half of neighboring Moldova to lose power.
December 2022 On 5 December Ukrainian prime minister
Denys Shmyhal said Russian missiles attacked energy facilities in Kyiv,
Vinnystia and Odesa regions, which cut off the water supply in Odesa. Mykolaiv suffered power outages affected the surrounding region. In Zaporizhzhia, a missile attack killed at least two people and wounded three others including a child. On 10 December seven Ukrainian oblasts were attacked by
Shahed kamikaze drones which damaged Odesa's electricity grid, leaving 1.5 million residents without electricity. Despite power restoration, around 300,000 people were without electricity. On 16 December Russia launched more than 70 missiles targeting Ukrainian infrastructure. Three people were killed in Kryvyi Rih after one missile struck an apartment block. Ukraine's energy minister
German Galushchenko said nine power plants had been attacked, causing energy shortages. The Kyiv metro was also shut down. Around 2:00 am
local time on 19 December, a wave of Russian self-detonating drones attacked critical infrastructure in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Electricity grid operator
Ukrenergo reported that despite most being shot down by anti-aircraft weapons, several energy facilities were hit. On 29 December Ukrainian armed forces claimed 54 of 69 Russian missiles were intercepted, including 16 over Kyiv and 21 over Odesa. At least three civilians were wounded in Kyiv, and a civilian house was struck in
Darnyts'kyi. On 31 December Russia launched missile strikes on Ukraine which killed one and injured at least a dozen, including a foreign journalist. Ukrainian Army chief
Valerii Zaluzhnyi said 12 of the 20 missiles were shot down by air defence and caused damage to a hotel and an isolated house in Kyiv. Ukrainian officials denounced the targeting of residential areas. The strikes had less impact on the national energy grid, yet 30% of Kyiv was without electricity.
January 2023 On 1 January 2023 Russian missile and drone strikes damaged infrastructure in
Sumy,
Khmelnytskyi, Zaprorizhzhia and
Kherson. At least two people were killed in the attacks. On 14 January Russian missiles hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv but no casualties were reported. A second wave came hours later when two S-300 missiles struck critical energy infrastructure in Kharkiv. In
Dnipro a multi-storey
residential building was struck by a KH-22 cruise missile, causing part of the building to collapse. The strike killed 46 people and wounded many others. The search and rescue operation was called off on 17 January. , 28 January 2023 On 26 January, a day after Ukraine secured agreement with the US and Germany to supply battle tanks, Russia launched an overnight drone attack followed by a number of missile strikes targeting infrastructure. Commander in chief,
Valery Zaluzhny confirmed that a 55-year-old man had been killed and two wounded by a missile strike in Kyiv. He also said that 47 out of 55 missiles had been shot down. Ukrainian energy company
DTEK announced that
electrical substations underwent emergency shutdowns and critical energy infrastructure in Odesa and
Vinnytsia regions were hit.
February 2023 On 10 February Ukraine's air force commander said that 61 of the 71 Russian missiles launched were shot down, which included cruise, ballistic, and
S-300 missiles. Ukrenergo said high-voltage facilities had been hit in all parts of Ukraine, causing disruption to power supplies. Mostly launched from the Black Sea, this attack was seen as a probing of Ukraine's southern air defenses in preparation for a future offensive. On 16 February the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that 41 Russian missiles were launched at Ukraine, of which 16 were shot down. The strikes involved
Kh-22 anti-ship missiles that Ukraine cannot intercept, and some targets hit were in
Lviv Oblast, and
Pavlohrad. The Ukrainian military said 34 missiles were shot down, a lower than usual rate due to Russia shifting to new technologies. Russia claimed it carried out a "massive retaliatory strike" as paybackafter an alleged
raid in the Bryansk Oblast of Russia. Russia's attack included an unprecedented six
Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv regions were hit, leaving 40% of civilians in Kyiv without heat, and electricity outages in Odesa. At least five people were killed by the strikes in Zolochiv, Lviv region and one civilian was killed in Dnipro region. The attack again damaged electricity supplies to
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, forcing it onto emergency diesel generators.
Rafael Grossi, head of the
IAEA said "Each time we are rolling a dice. And if we allow this to continue time after time then one day our luck will run out".
April 2023 In early April 2023, following what was called the "titanic work" of engineers and partners in restoring power supplies, energy minister
Herman Halushchenko announced the resumption of Ukraine's energy exports. Ukrenergo reported that every thermal and hydroelectric power station in Ukraine had been damaged by Russia's six-month campaign, with more than 1,200 missiles fired at its energy facilities. According to a military spokesman, a power facility in Karlivka was damaged by Russian attacks on 22 April, cutting off water supply to 67 settlements in Donetsk Oblast. On 28 April Russian cruise missiles killed at least 19 people. 23 missiles were launched during this attack and, according to the claims of Ukrainian officials, 21 were shot down by the Ukrainian military. One missile struck an apartment building in
Uman, killing at least 17 people. Fragments from a shot down missile hit a suburban house in
Dnipro, killing a mother and her three-year-old daughter. The UK's Ministry of Defence released an intelligence update, saying the facilities damaged by these April Russian strikes "indicates a possible shift away from targeting Ukraine's electrical power network", instead focusing on Ukraine's military and logistics hubs.
May 2023 May saw a Russian campaign of 20 deep combined attacks with missiles and drones during the month, The campaign was attributed to Russian willingness to distract Ukrainian forces from their expected counteroffensive and neutralizing Ukraine's improved air defences, but ISW assessed the Russian prioritization on Kyiv as limiting its ability to meaningfully constrain potential Ukrainian counteroffensive actions. The
Kyiv Independent analyzed Ukrainian military data and counted 560 missiles and drones that cost the Russian government an estimated $1.7 billion, with nearly 90 percent destroyed by Ukrainian air defence. On 1 May, according to Ukrainian claims, 15 out of 18 cruise missiles in a Russian attack were intercepted by Ukrainian air defences. The attack injured 34 civilians. Russian officials claimed it damaged railway infrastructure and an ammunition depot which was seemingly confirmed with social media videos of a blaze in
Pavlograd. Mykola Lukashuk, the head of the Dnipro regional council claimed that an industrial zone, 19 apartment buildings and 25 homes were damaged or destroyed during the attack. On 13 May the city of
Khmelnytskyi in Western Ukraine was hit, creating a large explosion. Russia claimed it hit an ammunition deport and a hangar while Ukraine confirmed the targets were "critical infrastructure". The attack resulted in 21 injuries, as well as damage to civilian houses, schools, hospitals, cultural institutions, administrative buildings and industrial facilities. On 13 May warehouses were damaged and two people injured in
Ternopil from a Russian missile attack. Ternopi was the hometown of Ukrainian electronic music duo
Tvorchi, and was struck before and during their
Eurovision Song Contest 2023 performance. On 16 May, Ukraine claimed that six
Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were intercepted by the Ukrainian military. In addition,
Valerii Zaluzhnyi claimed Ukraine had shot down nine Kalibr cruise missiles from ships in the Black Sea and three Iskanders fired from land. Russia claimed the attack destroyed a
Patriot air defense system in Kyiv, however, a United States official says that the system was likely damaged but not destroyed. On 25 May missile and drone strikes targeted Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv. Ukrainian authorities claimed to have shot down 17 missiles and 31 drones launched by Russia. A missile strike on a medical clinic in Dnipro killed at least 2 people and injured at least 30, including two boys aged three and six. Additionally, an oil depot in Kharkiv was hit twice and fragments from an intercepted drone in Kyiv damaged a house and several cars. Ukraine claimed to have destroyed 10 of the 17 missiles that were launched, and 23 of 31 attack drones. Russian forces also struck the floodgates of a hydroelectric dam in Donetsk Oblast using an S-300 antiaircraft missile in the
Battle of Karlivka on 25 May, threatening the villages of
Halytsynivka,
Zhelanne-1, and Zhelanne-2 on the Vovcha River, flooding six homes, and leading to 26 evacuations. The governor of Donetsk Oblast said the dam had been constantly shelled since the beginning of the invasion.
June 2023 after
Russian rocket attack in the night on 13 June 2023 On 6 June 2023 the
Kakhovka Dam, a major water-control structure and hydroelectric power plant in southern Ukraine was destroyed. The failure caused catastrophic flooding affecting downstream settlements, enormous ecological damage, and started draining the
Kakhovske Reservoir (which held 18 cubic kilometres of water), potentially cutting off water supply for hundreds of thousands and irrigation for large tracts of productive agricultural land, and increasing risk to the already threatened
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. While Ukraine conducted rescue of people in flooded territory on the right bank of the
Dnipro Russian forces shelled them, and Russian occupation authorities on the left bank prevented people from leaving the devastated regions. The Kakhovka dam had been under control of Russian occupation forces since March 2022. Experts said the dam was probably destroyed by an internal explosion, and evidence points to an explosion at the time of the dam's failure. Russian forces are accused of blowing up the dam to hinder the
Ukrainian counter-offensive, which Russian authorities denied. On 11 June a military spokesman said that Russia had blown up a dam that Russia had occupied since February 2022, causing flooding to slow the Ukrainian advance near Novodarivka on the Mokri Yaly River in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, on territory. South African President
Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the leaders of African countries came up with a new initiative for
peace in Ukraine. In June, a delegation from Africa, including representatives from South Africa, Egypt, Senegal, Congo-Brazzaville, Comoros, Zambia, and Uganda, visited Ukraine and Russia. They were in Kyiv during Russia's missile attack on the city. In the early hours of 20 June 35 Iranian
Shahed drones were launched by Russia mostly on Kyiv but also on Lviv. 32 were shot down. The remaining struck some critical infrastructure.
July 2023 and other
port cities in Ukraine. On 17 July 2023 Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had withdrew from a deal that allowed Ukraine to
export grain across the Black Sea despite a wartime blockade. Following the withdrawal from the grain deal, Russia launched a series of attacks on the Ukrainian port cities of
Odesa,
Mykolaiv and
Chornomorsk. Russia's Defense Ministry said the strikes were in retaliation for the
2023 Crimean Bridge explosion, but Ukraine said Russia was attacking civilian infrastructure linked to grain exports. On 20 July 2023 the Chinese general consulate in Odesa was damaged in a Russian attack on a grain terminal in a nearby port, plus other parts of the city. China has been the largest importer of grains from Ukraine.
September 2023 On the morning of 21 September, Russia launched a mass wave attack across several regions of Ukraine, killing 2 and injuring at least 26, and hitting a residential building, hotel, warehouses, a dormitory, and fuel and service stations. Ukraine's electricity grid operator Ukrenergo said the morning's Russian bombardment was the first major enemy attack on power infrastructure in six months and caused "partial blackouts in Rivne, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions".
October 2023 On 21 October, a Russian
S-300 missile strike struck a
post office in
Novyi Korotych,
Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. 8 people were killed and 15 further were injured, all of them post office employees. The airstrike was launched from
Belgorod Oblast, Russia.
December 2023 According to the Ukrainian military, Russia used 158 missiles and drones to launch the "largest strike since the beginning of the full-scale invasion" on Ukraine on 29 December 2023. At least 26 people were killed and 120 injured.
January 2024 On 2 January, in a more targeted attack than 4 days prior, and of a similarly large magnitude of ranged weapons, preliminarily 5 people were killed and 119 injured in Kyiv and Kharkiv. Russian Forces let fly an early morning first wave of 35
Shahed-136/131 drones and then a second wave of 99 missiles, including 70
Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles, 12
Iskander-M,
S-300, or
S-400 missiles, 10
Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missiles, and 4
Kh-31P anti-radar missiles. According to the Ukrainian military, out of the 99 missiles fired, 72 of them were intercepted, as well as all 35 Shahed-136/131 drones. Russia attacked the Ukrainian cities of
Kyiv en masse. During the bombing, due to a mistake, a bomb was also dropped on the village of
Petropavlovka in
Voronezh Oblast, Russia. In Kyiv, 50 people were injured and three were killed following the attacks. Over 250,000 people lost access to electricity.
Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, reported several strikes at civilian houses. Three people died while 62 were injured.
April 2024 on 11 April 2024 On 11 April, Russian strikes destroyed the
Trypilska thermal power plant in
Kyiv Oblast in an overnight attack.
June–August 2024 According to the
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), "Russia’s strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have grown in efficacy, and are now in danger of achieving the Kremlin’s goal of a total
blackout in Ukraine. ... Russian strikes had cumulatively destroyed 9
gigawatts (GW) of Ukraine’s domestic power generation by mid-June 2024. Peak consumption during the winter of 2023 was 18 GW, which means that half of Ukraine’s production capacity has been destroyed." On 10 August, an unspecified "critical infrastructure facility" in
Kramatorsk was damaged by a Russian missile strike, killing one worker and injuring several others. In August 2024, Ukrainian official told
The Washington Post: "Everything has to be weighed — our potential and the possible damage to our economy versus how much more damage could we cause them and their economy. But energy is definitely critical for us. We sometimes forget about the economy here, but we’re facing free fall if there’s no light and heat in the winter." series of missile and drone attacks against
Ukraine during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, targeting multiple large and important cities including
Kyiv,
Kharkiv,
Dnipro,
Odesa,
Kremenchuk,
Zaporizhzhia,
Vinnytsia,
Kropyvnytskyi,
Khmelnytskyi,
Stryi, and
Kryvyi Rih. The attacks resumed on the night of 26 August and into the morning of 27 August. Nationwide
air raid sirens began to sound just prior to 6 a.m. local time on 26 August. Reports from the
Ukrainian Air Force stated that multiple Russian
MiG-31 aircraft capable of deploying
Kinzhal ballistic missiles in addition to at least eleven
Tu-95 bombers, multiple kamikaze drones, and multiple missiles were detected in and around Ukrainian airspace targeting numerous Ukrainian cities across the nation. During the attacks, Ukraine used its
F-16s for the first time to intercept cruise missiles. However, the
Ukrainian Air Force subsequently announced the loss of an F-16 and its
pilot during the attacks.
Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko reported that "several districts" suffered from power outages following the first strikes, which was followed by water supply issues on the city's right bank. Kyiv Regional Military Administration head
Ruslan Kravchenko stated several infrastructure establishments were struck and damaged from the strikes, and that Kyiv authorities were creating station locations called "points of invincibility" to grant residents without power internet access and phone charging. Videos and images spread on social media platforms showed heavily crowded subway stations from Ukrainian residents taking shelter from ongoing Russian attacks. as well as the
Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant, damaging a dam and energy facility. One person was killed in
Izium Raion.
Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak reported that a 69-year-old man was killed in Russian attacks in the region, and that evening a Russian missile struck a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, killing four people and injuring five others. A Russian strike hit an energy infrastructure facility in
Poltava Oblast, causing five casualties, three of whom later died in hospital. Twelve communities in
Sumy Oblast were targeted by Russian weapons, with 83 separate attacks taking place in the region consisting of 212 separate explosions and resulting in at least sixteen injuries. In
Lutsk, at least one person was killed and an apartment building suffered damage from Russian attacks according to city mayor Ihor Polishchuk. Ukrainian officials announced that they would meet in
Washington D.C. to show the United States administration a list of potential Russian "high-value targets" that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could strike with long-range weaponry. Polish military authorities reported that an unidentified flying object appearing to be a Russian drone likely flew into Polish airspace during Russian attacks near Ukraine's western border. The
Polish Armed Forces alerted
Polish residents that multiple Polish and other allied aircraft took off and were flying in southeastern Poland.
November 2024 On 17 November 2024, Russia launched a massive wave of air attack against Ukraine. Ukraine claimed that Russia launched more than 120 missiles and 90 drones during the attack, of which 102 missiles and 42 drones were intercepted. A residential building in
Sumy was struck by a Russian missile later that day, killing 11 and injuring at least 89 people.
June 2025 In June 2025
United Nations noted that Russian attacks on infrastructure in the first five months of 2025 led to 50% higher number of civilian casualties than in the same period year before. Russian attacks in April resulted in 1389 casualties (221 killed, 1168 injured) and 1019 in May (183 killed, 836 injured).
July 2025 As of 1 July 2025, Ukrainian electrical output has returned to autumn 2022 levels, before the Russian systematic attack on the Ukrainian electric grid started. Ukraine has had an increase by 150% the power it’s exporting. Currently, Ukraine is exporting electricity to the EU, with Hungary being the biggest customer. The 3/4 July 2025 airstrikes
targeting Kyiv broke the daily record of Russian
long-range drone launches into the territory of Ukraine since the beginning of
invasion in 2022. The previous record-setting aerial attacks came just five days earlier, with 537 drones and missiles launched. A new record was set five days later on 8/9 July, with 728 drones targeting ten out of 23
oblasts overnight, including 50 drones and 5 missiles launched into
Volyn Oblast and its administrative center
Lutsk.
August 2025 On 5 August, a series of
Russian strikes targeting
Ukraine's
Zaporizhzhia,
Kharkiv,
Odesa, and
Sumy Oblasts killed at least five people and injures 13 others. One person was killed in a strike targeting infrastructure in the city of
Lozova in the Kharkiv region; infrastructure hit included high-rise buildings and a residential area.
January 2026 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha claimed on 6 January that Russia was systematically attacking American businesses in Ukraine. He stated that approximately half of the members of the had seen damage or destruction to their facilities "on various scales." == Spillover ==