Russian strikes target energy infrastructure across Ukraine, knocking out power, damaging power plants and deepening winter hardship. Meanwhile, Trump wants the war to end by June, Zelenskyy says.

Ukraine attacked Russia's Bryansk Oblast with Neptune missiles and High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) the night of Feb. 7, targeting energy infrastructure and disrupting the power supply,

The attack involved 408 strike drones (including about 250 Shaheds, as well as Gerbera, Italmas, and other models) and 39 missiles: two Zircon hypersonic missiles from temporarily occupied Crimea, 21 Kh-101 cruise missiles,

The U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a peace deal, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ukraine said on Saturday that Russian airstrikes targeted energy facilities and infrastructure in the country in a “massive” attack. Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a statement on Telegram that power substations and 750 kV and 330 kV overhead lines, which he described as the basis of the country’s power grid, were under attack.

Ukraine has accused Russia of illegally targeting power infrastructure during the war to deny civilians light, heating and running water.

As Ukraine accuses Russia of terrorism with a deadly strike on a train, some defense analysts believe Elon Musk's Starlink may have guided the killer drones.

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russia would regard the deployment of any foreign military forces or infrastructure in Ukraine as foreign intervention and treat those forces as legitimate targets, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday,

The civilian death toll has been edging upward as the war grinds on. The United Nations' Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in January that 2025 was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. "A massive increase in the use of long-range weapons by the Russian armed forces" helped drive the trend, the mission said.