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VLADIMIR YURCHUK

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The latest episode of Russia's ongoing campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure led to power outages and restrictions across the country Thursday, authorities said. The Ukrainian prime minister called Moscow's tactics “systematic energy terror.”

The attack, the latest in a series of near-daily Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid ahead of the region's brutal winter, left two people dead and 17 injured, including children ranging in age from two to 16, authorities said.

During the operation, Russia fired more than 650 drones and more than 50 missiles of various types, explained Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Ukrainian cities have centralized public infrastructure for water supply, sewerage and heating systems, and power outages impede their operation. The Kremlin's operations are aimed at undermining morale, as well as disrupting weapons production and other war-related activities, nearly four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbor.

“Russia continues systematic energy terror, attacking the life, dignity and warmth of Ukrainians on the eve of winter. Their goal is to plunge Ukraine into darkness, ours is to preserve the light,” said Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko.

“To stop this terror, Ukraine needs more air defense systems, tougher sanctions and maximum pressure (on Moscow),” he added, referring to unsuccessful US-led diplomatic efforts to bring Russia to the table to negotiate a peace deal.

In the Zaporozhye region in the south of the country, 17 people were injured as a result of the terrorist attacks, including a two-year-old girl, regional authorities explained. Rescuers pulled the man out from under the rubble of the building, but he did not survive, said the head of the Zaporozhye regional administration, Ivan Fedorov.

Two energy infrastructure sites were damaged in Leopolis, in the west, near the border with Poland, local authorities said.

The Polish army, for its part, indicated that it deployed its own military aircraft and NATO military aircraft as a preventive measure due to the Russian attack on Ukrainian soil. Airports in the Polish cities of Radom and Lublin have closed to ensure freedom of military action, the country's air navigation agency explained.

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This story was translated from English by an AP editor using a generative artificial intelligence tool.