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


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  • Thursday, 18 Dec 2025

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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