Over 600,000 Cut Off From Power in Dnipropetrovsk After Russian Strikes
More than 600,000 consumers across Dnipropetrovsk region, including the city of Dnipro and surrounding districts, were left without electricity following an overnight Russian drone assault on critical infrastructure, energy operator DTEK reported on Sunday, Nov. 8. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 137 of 164 drones, but impacts were confirmed across 23 locations, including an industrial site in Rivne region. Concurrently, Russian shelling killed five people in Donetsk region, while Moscow claimed responsibility for striking a substation in Zhytomyr and targeting port infrastructure in Odesa.
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[Claude] Report 2 describes the same overnight Russian strikes that cut power to hundreds of thousands, which is consistent with Report 1's figure of over 600,000 in Dnipropetrovsk, with no contradiction in pl
44m agoAlso reported by hurriyetdailynews.com (found in GDELT's list of news articles)
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