Ukraine says Russian strikes cut power in six regions

Ukraine's national power company said Russian overnight strikes on energy facilities cut power in six regions on Tuesday, hours before Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met for US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi.

Ukrenergo said the latest wave hit energy facilities in eight regions. It said outages affected the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Chernigiv regions as of Tuesday morning.

Energy workers were working to repair damaged equipment and restore electricity, the company said.

Prime Minister Sergiy Koretsky said the overnight strikes killed two people in the central Ukrainian city of Ladyzhyn.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Russia of intensifying strikes on energy infrastructure to put pressure on Kyiv at the talks in the United Arab Emirates.

Russia has repeatedly launched aerial barrages at Ukraine since its 2022 invasion. Last winter's attacks on the grid and energy facilities left millions in cold and darkness as temperatures fell as low as minus 20 Celsius.