Russia targets Ukraine’s power grid in biggest missile strike in months, officials say

Seven people killed as more than 200 missiles and drones hit Ukraine overnight, while Poland scrambles fighter jets

Russia fired more than 200 missile and drones across Ukraine overnight and in the early morning, killing seven people, as Moscow targeted the country’s energy grid in an effort to disrupt power supply as winter looms.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, said about 120 missiles and 90 drones were launched by Russia and that two people were killed and six wounded in a drone strike on the southern city of Mykolaiv.

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