Ukraine’s national power company said on Aug. 8 continued Russian attacks on
energy infrastructure has left the grid under severe strain, prompting
emergency blackouts in Kharkiv, Sumy and Poltava regions. Private energy firm
DTEK reported emergency outages in Kyiv city and region and said Dnipropetrovsk
was hit by a large-scale strike, leaving more than 600,000 residents in
Pavlohrad and nearby areas without power. The Ukrainian Air Force said Russian
forces fired three missiles and launched 164 drones between the night of the 7th
and early hours of the 8th; by 0800 Ukrainian air defenses and electronic
warfare units had intercepted or suppressed 137 drones.
