Russia unleashes a massive overnight attack on Ukraine's electricity grid as temperatures drop ahead of winter

From the Newshound archive · first published 3 November 2026.

Russia targeted Ukraine's electricity grid in one of its heaviest overnight bombardments in months, hitting facilities across multiple regions and triggering widespread power outages just as sub-zero temperatures begin to bite. Zelenskyy gave Fox News an exclusive interview from Kyiv defiantly rejecting Trump's pressure to halt Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries.

Zelenskyy told Trump: 'If you want us not to attack Russia's refineries, they have not to attack our energy system.'

The strikes are already strangling Ukraine's economy — steel production has shut down and grain exports have stalled, tightening the economic vice on Kyiv.