INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian missile and drone barrage damaged a Ukrainian power plant and other energy facilities overnight, officials said on Thursday, the
latest in a series of strikes that have pushed the country's grid to the brink.The targeted aerial barrages over recent months have crippled
Ukraine's electricity generation capacity and forced officials to impose rolling blackouts and import supplies from neighboring EU
states."The enemy attacked a number of energy infrastructure facilities," the energy ministry said, adding that the barrage of Russian
projectiles targeted energy-linked sites in four regions, including the capital, without elaborating.DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy
company, said the aerial attacks had caused "serious damage" at one of its thermal power plants, and that three of its employees had been
wounded in the attack."This is already the seventh mass attack on the company's thermal power plant in the last three months," the company
said.President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that those attacks have halved generator capacity in the war-battered country compared to one
year ago and urged allies to send more air defense systems to protect vital infrastructure.
