Russian missile strike hits key Kyiv power plant, killing one
A Russian ballistic missile strike hit one of Kyiv's key energy plants and a residential building late on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 13, four of them seriously, the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The Darnytska CHP-4 plant, which supplies heating and electricity to the Dniprovskyi district and parts of the Darnytskyi district, was among the targets. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack came with "no early warning from our partners" and accused Moscow of deliberately targeting civilian energy infrastructure despite Ukraine having backed a ceasefire.
The strike came just two days after US President Donald Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt attacks on energy facilities. Kyiv reported multiple Russian strikes on such sites in the aftermath of that announcement, and Zelensky said this was the second night in a row that Kyiv itself had been hit by missiles.
Zelensky used the attack to appeal directly to Washington, saying it was vital that the United States "really see what is happening and who is responsible for this war continuing". Speculation had grown that the US had cut Ukraine's access to intelligence needed to track incoming threats; Trump denied this on Tuesday, insisting "we are sharing intel" while declining to say whether Russia had broken the ceasefire, and noting that Ukraine had hit Russian sites the day before.
The Darnytska plant has been a repeated target during the war and was severely damaged in a February strike that forced its shutdown, leaving more than 1,000 residential buildings, 47 schools, 72 kindergartens and 18 medical institutions without heating and hot water, according to Reuters.
The attack also lands amid a political dispute over Ukraine's leadership. After Trump said "it's time for Ukraine to get a new president", Zelensky proposed on Sunday that a 60-day ceasefire would allow elections to be held. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected the idea, saying Ukraine did not deserve the "respite" a ceasefire would bring and warning that any pause would let Europe "pump [Ukraine] with new weapons".
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