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Posted on October 30, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Add as preferred source on GoogleA Russian attack on a Sloviansk power station killed two, with President Zelenskiy condemning it as terror. Energy sites were targeted in the Donetsk region.
(Corrects 1st paragraph to say two dead in Sloviansk attack, not three)
(Reuters) -A Russian bomb strike on a Ukrainian thermal power plant killed two people and injured others on Thursday in the eastern city of Sloviansk, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, described the attack in Donetsk region near the front line as "strictly terror". He said energy sites were the prime targets of overnight Russian drone and missile attacks.
Reuters could not independently verify the account.
Prosecutors in Donetsk region said Russian attacks on private dwellings in the city of Kramatorsk killed one person and injured three.
Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are certain to be key Russian targets in the slow advance westward of Russian troops through Donetsk region.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Bogdan Kochubey; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
A thermal power plant is a facility that converts heat energy, typically from burning fossil fuels, into electrical energy. It uses steam to drive turbines that generate electricity.
A drone attack refers to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to carry out military strikes or surveillance. These attacks can target specific locations or individuals.
Energy infrastructure includes the facilities and systems that generate, transmit, and distribute energy. This encompasses power plants, transmission lines, and distribution networks.
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