# Russia Launches Massive Missile and drone Attack on Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure
A Russian mass missile and drone attack overnight on Dec.6 has once again hammered Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, hitting substations, generation facilities, and disconnecting one of the power lines that supplies the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russia launched 653 Shahed-type attack drones, 36 cruise missiles, and 17 ballistic missiles at targets across the country. Sixty strikes were recorded at 29 locations.
“The main targets of these strikes are once again energy infrastructure,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram.
“The Russians’ goal is to hurt millions of Ukrainians,and they have already fallen so low that they launch missiles at peaceful cities on St. Nicholas Day.”
Explosions were reported in Poltava, Lutsk, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, and Bila Tserkva during the attacks. Russian strikes damaged electricity generation, distribution, and transmission facilities in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Kharkiv oblasts, the Energy Ministry reported.
In Chernihiv Oblast, Russian drones hit a residential area as well as critical infrastructure in both the region and Chernihiv city, the State Emergency Services reported.
The attack was “quite severe” for Ukraine’s power system,Vitaliy zaichenko,head of Ukraine’s state grid operator Ukrenergo,told the Kyiv Autonomous.Strikes hit Ukrenergo’s substations and generation facilities, and disconnected one of the two power lines supplying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
“Other nuclear power plants are now operating below their full capacity for safety reasons,” he added.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost all off-site power for half an hour, the 11th time during Russia’s full-scale invasion, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wrote on X. the 330 kilovolt line was reconnected, but the 750 kilovolt line remains disconnected, the agency added.
Russian strikes also hit thermal power plants owned by DTEK,ukraine’s largest private energy company,in the sixth mass attack since October.While the company didn’t name the plants for security reasons, it disclosed that power generation equipment was “seriously damaged.”
As of the morning, there are power outages in Odesa, C
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