The announcement got here hours after in a single day Russian strikes on vitality websites left 60,000 Ukrainians with out electrical energy.
Revealed On 31 Aug 2025
Ukraine intends to strike deep into Russia following a large Russian drone attack that left 60,000 Ukrainians without electricity, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated.
Talking on Sunday after a gathering along with his high basic, Oleksandr Syrskii, the Ukrainian president confirmed the brand new deliberate strikes on X.
Each side have intensified their air strikes in current weeks, with Moscow attacking Ukraine’s vitality and transport techniques in addition to launching lethal strikes in current days on civilian areas in Kyiv and Zaporizhia, and Ukraine focusing on Russian oil refineries and pipelines.
In a single day, Russian drones hit 4 vitality amenities in Ukraine’s Odesa area, based on the non-public vitality firm DTEK. The strikes left 29,000 individuals with out electrical energy, native authorities reported.
The port metropolis of Chornomorsk close to Odesa, the place one individual was injured, was the worst-affected place, regional Governor Oleh Kiper wrote on Telegram. “Essential infrastructure is working on turbines,” he stated.
DTEK stated emergency restore work would begin following the all-clear from the Ukrainian army, which reported that in complete, Russia had attacked Ukraine with 142 drones, all however 10 of which it claimed to have downed.
The Russian army prompt on Sunday that it had shot down 112 Ukrainian drones prior to now 24 hours.
In the meantime, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov blamed Europe for the continuation of the warfare and for hampering United States President Donald Trump’s peace efforts.
“The European warring celebration is sustaining its elementary course; it isn’t giving in,” he stated from the sidelines of a summit in China, in a reference to the European Union’s arms deliveries to Ukraine.
His phrases got here simply days after a Russian air strike killed at the least 23 individuals and broken EU diplomatic workplaces in central Kyiv.
Talking simply hours earlier than Trump’s deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to conform to a gathering along with his Ukrainian counterpart Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated he thought the warfare, which started greater than three and a half years in the past, wouldn’t end quickly.
“I’m getting ready myself inwardly for this warfare to final a very long time,” he informed the general public broadcaster ZDF on Sunday, noting that diplomatic efforts to carry the battle to an finish couldn’t come “on the value of Ukraine’s capitulation”.
Elsewhere, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Fee, travelled to Poland on Sunday as a part of her tour of EU states that border Russia and its ally Belarus.
Talking alongside the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, von der Leyen known as Putin a “predator” who may solely be stored in examine by way of “robust deterrence”.
The EU Fee president additionally stated that member states bordering Russia and Belarus would obtain further funding from the bloc, calling the defence of its borders a “shared duty”.
Whereas the EU continues to focus on Russia’s safety threat for the broader continent, the Kremlin has sought to brighten its army achievements in a bid to make its victory in Ukraine appear inevitable, based on the Institute for the Examine of Battle (ISW), a US assume tank.
In its newest evaluation of the battle, ISW stated that Russian military chief Common Valery Gerasimov’s claims on Saturday about Russian features had been exaggerated.
The Russian basic had prompt that the Kremlin’s forces had captured 3,500sq km [1,351sq miles] of territory and 149 settlements for the reason that begin of March.
“Gerasimov’s claims notably inflate Russian features by roughly 1,200 sq. kilometres [463sq miles] and 19 settlements,” the ISW stated.
