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Russian attacks cut power, heating for tens of thousands in southern Ukraine
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on December 4, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 20, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on December 4, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 20, 2026
Russian attacks on Kherson and Odesa have left thousands without power and heat, escalating Ukraine's energy crisis as winter looms.
KYIV, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people were left without power and heating in southern Ukraine after Russian attacks on the frontline city of Kherson and Ukraine's largest seaport, Odesa, authorities and a top energy provider said on Thursday.
Russia has sharply increased its attacks on Ukraine's energy and utilities sector as winter approaches, plunging swathes of cities and regions into darkness.
State oil and gas firm Naftogaz said a heat and power plant in the southern city of Kherson had been "almost completely destroyed." Regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said the attack left 40,500 customers without heat.
"This is a purely civilian facility providing heat to residents," Naftogaz CEO Sergii Korteskyi wrote on X. "Such targeted bombing is terrorism."
Kherson, a frontline city that was for several months occupied by Russian forces after Moscow's invasion in February 2022, comes under Russian missile, drone and artillery attack on an almost daily basis.
Separately, Ukrainian energy company DTEK said on Thursday that Russia attacked its energy facility in the southern Odesa region overnight, leaving 51,800 households without power.
In Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces are grinding forward in the battlefield, attacks left about 60,000 residents without power, Kyiv's energy ministry said.
(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka and by Pavel Polityuk, Editing by Alex Richardson, Ed Osmond and Bernadette Baum)
Energy infrastructure refers to the physical systems and facilities that generate, transmit, and distribute energy, such as power plants, transmission lines, and substations.
A civilian facility is a structure or location used for non-military purposes, typically serving the general public, such as schools, hospitals, and residential buildings.
A power plant is an industrial facility that generates electricity by converting various energy sources, such as fossil fuels, nuclear energy, or renewable resources, into electrical power.
An energy provider is a company or organization that supplies energy, such as electricity or gas, to consumers and businesses, ensuring the availability of power for daily use.
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