Ukraine is racing against winter to bolster its air defences, patch up its battered power grid and source spare parts, amid warnings that Russia’s intensifying air strikes show it is aiming for the “complete destruction” of its neighbour’s energy system.
Drones hit civilian infrastructure in the Sumy region of northern Ukraine early on Friday, a day after Russia targeted energy facilities across the country with 52 missiles and more than 600 drones, beginning with attacks on western regions before dawn and ending with a bomb strike on the eastern city of Sloviansk that killed two power workers.
“Based on the intensity of attacks for the past two months, it is clear Russia is aiming for the complete destruction of Ukraine’s energy system,” said Maxim Timchenko, chief executive of DTEK, Ukraine’s biggest private energy company.
“We ca
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