At least three oil tankers have been hit by explosions in what appears to be a stepped up unilateral effort by Ukraine to sink Russia's sanctions-dodging oil sales.

Russia targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight, meaning another winter of power outages for Ukrainians as Vladimir Putin tries to crush their resolve. Holly Williams reports.

Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi, in a social media post, stated that officials were working to restore electricity, water, and heating in districts where supplies had been disrupted.

A large-scale Russian drone and missile attack damaged power facilities in eight Ukrainian regions, causing blackouts and forcing nuclear power plants to cut power output, officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday.

Russian glide bombs are reshaping the war in Ukraine, turning once-distant cities into frontline targets and forcing Kyiv and its allies into a race to build cheaper, scalable defenses against a rapidly growing aerial threat.

Ukraine will introduce more restrictions on power usage and will allow additional energy imports as it struggles to repair infrastructure shuttered in Russian strikes, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Tuesday.

Russian forces are advancing along the entire front in Ukraine and have taken over 30% of the buildings in the eastern town of Myrnohrad. Russian Chief of Staff, Valery Gerasimov, stated on Tuesday that Russian forces were advancing along the entire front in Ukraine and had taken over 30% of the buildings in the eastern town of Myrnohrad.