Ukraine endures widespread blackouts as Russia attacks critical infrastructure

Ukrainians are having to cope with widespread emergency blackouts as Russia continued to pound critical infrastructure over the weekend.

In recent months Moscow has intensified its attacks against Ukraine’s energy grid. On Friday night Ukrainian energy facilities came under a “massive attack”, the Ukraine’s energy ministry said. Several workers were injured as a result of shelling at one of the facilities.

“The situation in the energy sector remains difficult,” the ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

Volodomyr Zelenksiy said this month that Russia had damaged or destroyed more than half of Ukraine’s power generation, causing the worst rolling blackouts since the full-scale invasion in 2022.