‘Third of Ukraine’s power stations’ destroyed by Russian air strikes

Ukrainian soldiers shoot a drone that appears in the sky seconds before it fired on buildings in Kyiv (Vadym Sarakhan/AP)

Air strikes have cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians as part of a Russian campaign to leave the nation cold and dark this winter, Ukraine’s president has said.

Volodymyr Zelensky said nearly one third of Ukraine’s power stations have been destroyed in the past week, “causing massive blackouts across the country”.