Ukraine says 180,000 consumers were left without power after Russian overnight attack

December 18, 2025 4:08 AM EST

A firefighter works at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine December 17, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

KYIV, ⁠Dec 18 (Reuters) - ⁠Around ‍180,000 consumers were ‍left without electricity ​supplies across five Ukrainian ​regions after a Russian attack overnight, Ukraine's acting ​energy minister Artem Nekrasov ​said on Thursday.

Nekrasov said ‌on the Telegram messenger that the ​southern regions ⁠of Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia, ‌the central regions of ‌Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk, and ‌the north-eastern region of Sumy were attacked ‍during the night.

(Reporting by ⁠Anna Pruchnicka, writing by Pavel Polityuk, editing by Alexandra Hudson)



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