🔸Russia carried out extensive attacks on Tuesday, 12 Aban, with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which led to power outages in Kyiv and at least six other regions of the country.

🔸Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, said that in these attacks Russia used 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles, and 59 cruise missiles, targeting power plants and electrical substations from Odesa in the south to Rivne in the west of the country.

🔸Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported that in Tuesday’s attacks, at least 13 energy facilities were targeted in 9 regions of Ukraine.

🔸DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private power producer, announced that three of the company’s five thermal power plants have been taken offline. Ukrainian officials also reported damage to railway facilities and the wounding of at least 62 people in an attack on a medical facility in Kharkiv.

🔸Zelensky, pointing to the coincidence of these attacks with the U.S. congressional midterm elections, said that Russia believes Washington on election day will not pay attention to Moscow’s large-scale attacks against Ukraine.