Russia blasts Ukraine’s power grid again, causing outages across the country and killing 6

By VOLODYMR YURCHUK KYIV Ukraine AP The latest in a sustained Russian campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine s force infrastructure brought power outages and restrictions in all the country s regions Thursday administrators stated with the Ukrainian prime minister describing Moscow s tactic as systematic potential terror Related Articles Trump no-show at big Asian economic forum may liability US reputation in region Palestinians hand over coffins with remains of hostages to Red Cross in Gaza more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge Haiti Jamaica and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa s destruction Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi in South Korea The strikes which were the latest in Russia s almost daily attacks on the Ukrainian power grid as bitter winter temperatures approach killed at least six people including a -year-old girl according to bureaucrats Children between and years of age were among the injured Russian launched more than drones and more than missiles of various types in the attack Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared Ukrainian cities use centralized masses infrastructure to run water sewage and heating systems and blackouts stop them from working Months of attacks have aimed to erode Ukrainian morale as well as disrupt weapons manufacturing and other war-related activity almost four years after Russia s full-scale invasion of its neighbor Russia continues its systematic vitality terror striking at the lives dignity and warmth of Ukrainians on the eve of winter Its goal is to plunge Ukraine into darkness ours is to keep the light on Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko reported To stop this terror Ukraine requirements more air defense systems tougher sanctions and maximum pressure on Russia she added referring to fruitless U S -led diplomatic efforts to make Russia enter negotiations for a peace settlement Two men and a woman were killed and another person was injured in a strike on the eastern Ukraine city of Sloviansk police commented Crisis personnel examine the site of an airstrike after a Russian missile hit a hostel in Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Thursday Oct AP Photo Kateryna Klochko Rescuers attend to the scene after a Russian missile hit a hostel in Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Thursday Oct AP Photo Kateryna Klochko Show Caption of Urgency personnel examine the site of an airstrike after a Russian missile hit a hostel in Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Thursday Oct AP Photo Kateryna Klochko Expand Russian forces hit the city which is just miles from the front line with rockets Vadym Lyakh the head of the city s military administration announced Strikes in the southern Zaporizhzhia region injured people including a -year-old girl regional executives noted Rescuers pulled a man from the rubble of a building but he did not survive according to Ivan Fedorov head of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration A second person was also killed in Zaporizhzhia A -year-old girl died in hospital from her injuries in Ukraine s central-west Vinnytsia region regional governor Nataliia Zobolotna mentioned Two vitality infrastructure facilities were damaged in the western Lviv region near the limit with Poland local officials reported The Polish military explained that it scrambled Polish and allied NATO aircraft as a preventive measure due to the Russian attack on Ukrainian territory The Polish regional airports in Radom and Lublin were closed to ensure the military freedom of operation the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency announced Katie Marie Davies contributed from Manchester England Follow AP s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https apnews com hub russia-ukraine