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Intense Russian strikes connected Sunday (October 5, 2025) successful Ukraine killed 5 radical successful the confederate Zaporizhzhia portion and Lviv successful the westbound and severely damaged vigor infrastructure, severing powerfulness supplies to tens of thousands.
Russia has stepped up attacks connected Ukraine's vigor infrastructure arsenic the upwind chills.
"This Sunday night, Russia launched yet different barrage of missiles and drones against the radical of Ukraine, targeting the Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernigiv, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Odesa regions," Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.
Lviv has been the country that the Russian subject has targeted the astir since Moscow launched its full-scale violative connected Ukraine successful February 2022.
"In Lviv, 4 radical were killed and 4 others injured. In Zaporizhzhia, 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 10 injured aft Russia targeted residential areas with drones and aerial bombs. Across each affected areas, residential buildings and captious infrastructure were damaged."
Ivan Fedorov, the caput of the Zaporizhzhia region, earlier said a 16-year-old miss was among those receiving "necessary assistance" from aesculapian unit aft the attack.
There were wide powerfulness outages successful the metropolis arsenic vigor instrumentality was damaged, the work supplier said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the overnight onslaught saw implicit 50 missiles and astir 500 onslaught drones fired astatine his country.
"The Russians erstwhile again targeted our infrastructure — everything that ensures mean beingness for our people. We request much extortion and faster implementation of each defence agreements, particularly connected aerial defence, to deprive this aerial panic of immoderate meaning," helium said Sunday (October 5).
A nationwide aerial alert was successful spot crossed Ukraine arsenic of 4:09 a.m. (0109 GMT).
Poland's equipped forces meantime said connected X that they had mobilised planes and enactment crushed defences connected precocious alert to unafraid the country's airspace, particularly successful areas adjacent to Ukraine.
The Mayor of Lviv, a occidental Ukrainian metropolis adjacent the borderline with Poland, said nationalist transport routes were not operating owed to a "massive force attack".
Public transport successful Ivano-Frankivsk, different occidental city, would "start moving aboriginal than usual" connected Sunday, its politician said.
Mr. Fedorov said connected Sunday that Russia's overnight onslaught near "more than 73,000 consumers... without electricity" successful Zaporizhzhia, and the Lviv politician said portion of the metropolis had nary power.
This week, Moscow launched its largest-ever onslaught connected Ukraine's state infrastructure, portion strikes connected Saturday chopped disconnected powerfulness to astir 50,000 households successful the bluish Chernigiv region.
