Foreign Policy

Russian Drone Strikes Devastate Ukrainian Power Grids Amid Ongoing War

By National Security Desk | January 8, 2026

As Russia continues its brutal assault on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, drone strikes have plunged over a million Ukrainians into darkness—highlighting Moscow’s disregard for human life and the urgent need for decisive American leadership.

The latest wave of Russian drone strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure marks another grim chapter in Moscow’s ruthless war strategy. This time, the entire southern Zaporizhzhia region was plunged into a four-hour blackout, while more than 600,000 households in the central Dnipropetrovsk region remain without power. Such attacks are not random acts of war but calculated attempts to weaponize winter against innocent civilians. Why Is Russia Targeting Power Grids? There is no military logic behind knocking out electricity to millions of people during freezing conditions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rightly condemned these strikes as deliberate assaults on public services designed...

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