Russia targets Ukraine energy sector

Ukraine received no advance warning from its partners of a Russian ballistic missile strike overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, adding that some vital deliveries from the United States were being delayed.

Moscow launched one of its broadest air assaults in months overnight, cutting power to more than half a million households and damaging energy infrastructureacross Ukraine.

Russia fired 16 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the surrounding region and more than 200 drones in attacks stretching from Kharkiv and Dnipro in the east to Odesa in the south and Volyn and Rivne in the west. The strikes killed two people in Kyiv and the nearby region and two more people in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, officials said.