In brief
The Energy Ministry said Ukraine’s nuclear facilities have cut output amid Russian attacks that damaged the grid, leaving six regions without power and forcing blackouts nationwide. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has highlighted steep missile and drone assaults on energy infrastructure, and repair crews are working hard to restore supply.
Ukraine’s Energy Ministry announced that its nuclear power plants have had to cut output after large‑scale Russian attacks on the nation’s energy infrastructure, sparking electricity shortages in six regions and scheduled blackouts across most of the country, including the capital, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2026. The ministry said the plants will gradually return to normal operating levels once repair crews finish restoring the damaged power grid.
The incident follows a night‑time assault that the ministry said left significant damage to energy infrastructure in the capital’s surrounding region. Repair crews are working around the clock to restore a stable power supply, it added. One of the key objectives is to bring the nuclear power output back up to its pre‑attack capacity, the ministry said.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, earlier said that Russia had launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles in a nighttime attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure over a 24‑hour period. He reported that the attacks had severely disrupted electricity services, and that the nation was experiencing large‑scale blackouts due to the damage to the grid.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the previous night, the country’s air‑defense forces had intercepted and destroyed 496 Ukrainian fixed‑wing unmanned aerial vehicles over several regions, as well as over the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. The condemnation marks a recent escalation of the ongoing conflict, according to Russian officials.
