Russia strikes two more Ukrainian power stations

Russia struck two more power stations in Ukraine's Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions on Wednesday, its defence ministry said, a day after a barrage of 289 drones and 59 cruise missiles knocked three of DTEK's five thermal plants offline and forced emergency power cuts in Kyiv and six other regions.

Why it matters: The follow-on strikes, a hit on a substation critical to the Khmelnytskyi nuclear plant and reported forced cuts in nuclear generation extend the grid damage into a second day, a week before United States brokered peace talks resume in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11.

Data as of Reuters reporting of November 4, 2026, read in full in this run, for the Wednesday strikes claim, the Tuesday barrage totals given by President Zelenskiy and Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal, the DTEK plant outages and the emergency cuts. The reports that Ukraine's energy ministry confirmed a forced reduction in nuclear plant output and called the Kyiv supply situation the most difficult, and that Dnipro was left without power, reached this run's feed queue only as TASS and RT relays of the ministry, in Russian; tass.ru is blocked to this run's page reader, those relays were not read in full, and they are reported here as the ministry's position as relayed, not as independently confirmed fact. Developing item.

Russia said on Wednesday that it had struck two power stations in Ukraine’s Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions, its defence ministry announced on Telegram, continuing a campaign against the energy system a day after one of the largest barrages of the war. On Tuesday Russia launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles at power plants and substations from Odesa to Rivne, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal, and DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private generator, said three of its five thermal power plants had been knocked offline in what its chief executive called one of the most serious attacks ever on its facilities.

The barrage forced emergency power cuts in Kyiv and six other regions, interrupted the capital’s water supply and brought scheduled cuts of more than 12 hours in areas without emergency outages, the first such cuts this fall. Shmyhal said three drones were directed at a substation critical to the stable operation of the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant, warned that such attacks threaten nuclear safety across Europe, and said the International Atomic Energy Agency had been informed; Russian state agencies TASS and RT, relaying Ukraine’s energy ministry on Wednesday, reported that the ministry had confirmed nuclear plants were forced to reduce output and that the supply situation in Kyiv was the most difficult, neither of which independent reporting in this run has confirmed.

Russia strikes two more Ukrainian power stations

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