Russian strikes kill at least six in Ukraine, cut power in Kyiv, officials say

Overnight Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least six people in Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said, according to France 24, Al Jazeera, the South China Morning Post and The Hindu. Ukraine's state emergency service said three died in Kyiv. Two were killed in a strike on a multistorey building in Desnianskyi district and one in Holosiivskyi district. Military authorities said two people were killed in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where six were wounded. One person was killed in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to regional officials' tallies cited by France 24.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that energy facilities in the city and region were hit. Al Jazeera quoted him as writing: "There are power disruptions in the capital." DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy provider, said the attack caused emergency power cuts in several Kyiv districts. President Volodymyr Zelensky said some 600,000 people lost power, according to France 24 and Le Monde. France 24 reported that Russia's Defence Ministry said it struck seven Ukrainian energy facilities and a data centre that it said benefited the Ukrainian military.

The strikes followed an 'energy ceasefire' that US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday. Zelensky accused Russia of deliberately violating it. "Russia has never before shown such ostentatious disrespect toward the United States," he wrote on X, according to Al Jazeera. He also said Ukraine received no early warning from Western partners before the missile attack on Kyiv.

In Russia, Saratov governor Roman Busargin said a Ukrainian drone strike killed one person in Balakovo. Russia's military said 902 Ukrainian drones were downed overnight. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said nearly 500 drones heading for the capital were downed. Al Jazeera reported that the military put the number near Moscow at 180.

What is not yet known: The reports reviewed by Vocemundi do not include a Kremlin or US response to Zelensky's accusation. Trump said Russia and Ukraine had agreed to the ceasefire, according to The Hindu, but the reports include no Russian confirmation of that. They do not independently verify Zelensky's power-cut figure or Russia's claims about its targets. They do not give a total number of wounded or say when power will be restored.

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