Two dead, thousands without power in Ukraine

Russian attacks on Ukraine killed two people in Zaporizhzhia and left much of the northern district of Chernihiv without electricity, Ukrainian officials said.

Zaporizhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said that a man and a woman died and six people, including two children, were injured in the morning attack on the city.

Meanwhile, in the Chernihiv region, Governor Viacheslav Chaus said that repair work is continuing to repair the damage caused after a drone attack on an energy facility. The pre-war population of the region, which borders Russia and Belarus, was close to one million.

The regional capital, also called Chernihiv, is completely without electricity, the city government said on Saturday.

Russia waged a bombing campaign against Ukraine’s energy facilities throughout the war, regularly causing hours-long power outages across the country.

Chernihiv was hit hard by power outages over the winter as Russia carried out the largest bombing campaign of the four-year war against Ukraine’s power grid.