Russian strikes kill 5 in Ukraine, trigger energy outages

Intense Russian strikes on Sunday (October 5, 2025) in Ukraine killed 5 folks within the southern Zaporizhzhia area and Lviv within the west and badly broken power infrastructure, severing energy provides to tens of 1000’s.

Russia has stepped up assaults on Ukraine’s power infrastructure because the climate chills.

“This Sunday night, Russia launched yet another barrage of missiles and drones against the people of Ukraine, targeting the Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernigiv, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Odesa regions,” Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko stated.

Lviv has been the realm that the Russian army has focused essentially the most since Moscow launched its full-scale offensive on Ukraine in February 2022.

“In Lviv, four people were killed and four others injured. In Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed and 10 injured after Russia targeted residential areas with drones and aerial bombs. Across all affected areas, residential buildings and critical infrastructure were damaged.”

Ivan Fedorov, the top of the Zaporizhzhia area, earlier stated a 16-year-old woman was amongst these receiving “necessary assistance” from medical personnel after the assault.

There have been widespread energy outages within the metropolis as power gear was broken, the service supplier stated.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the in a single day assault noticed over 50 missiles and about 500 assault drones fired at his nation.

“The Russians once again targeted our infrastructure — everything that ensures normal life for our people. We need more protection and faster implementation of all defence agreements, especially on air defence, to deprive this aerial terror of any meaning,” he stated Sunday (October 5).

A nationwide air alert was in place throughout Ukraine as of 4:09 a.m. (0109 GMT).

Poland’s armed forces in the meantime stated on X that that they had mobilised planes and put floor defences on excessive alert to safe the nation’s airspace, particularly in areas near Ukraine.

The Mayor of Lviv, a western Ukrainian metropolis close to the border with Poland, stated public transport routes weren’t working as a consequence of a “massive enemy attack”.

Public transport in Ivano-Frankivsk, one other western metropolis, would “start running later than usual” on Sunday, its mayor stated.

Mr. Fedorov stated on Sunday that Russia’s in a single day assault left “more than 73,000 consumers… without electricity” in Zaporizhzhia, and the Lviv mayor stated a part of town had no energy.

This week, Moscow launched its largest-ever strike on Ukraine’s fuel infrastructure, whereas strikes on Saturday lower off energy to round 50,000 households within the northern Chernigiv area.