Russia just launched one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine's power grid

Russia just hit Ukraine's power grid with one of its biggest attacks of the whole war.

We're talking facilities in at least nine regions. Overnight, into this morning.

And in just one region, Zhytomyr, more than 180,000 homes lost power. 130 towns and villages, all dark at once.

So how big was this really? Ukrenergo, the state grid operator, says energy sites were hit more than 20 times in 24 hours. Their words: one of the most extensive attacks on the country's energy infrastructure since the war began.

Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia fired 289 drones. Plus 17 ballistic missiles. Plus 59 cruise missiles. That's 76 missiles in one night.

Now here's something odd. Ukraine's own officials can't agree on where it hit.

Artem Nekrasov, the First Deputy Minister of Energy, named ten regions this morning. Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Odesa, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi and Kharkiv.

But Zelensky gave a different list. Nine regions. Same group, minus Zaporizhzhia and Khmelnytskyi, plus Cherkasy instead. Nobody has explained why the two lists don't match.

Zhytomyr took the worst hit. Vitaliy Bunechko, who runs the regional military administration there, says around 130 settlements lost power. More than 180,000 subscribers. And he says nobody was killed or hurt there.

DTEK, Ukraine's biggest private energy company, says three of its power plants went completely offline. No word yet on whether they can be fixed.

In Kyiv, the water utility Kyivvodokanal says its facilities lost power too, which cut water supplies in parts of the capital. That one hasn't been confirmed elsewhere yet.

But the worst human toll was in Kharkiv and Dnipro.

A strike hit a hospital in Kharkiv's Nemyshlyanskyi district. At least 73 people wounded. Patients. Medical staff. People in nearby buildings too. Mayor Ihor Terekhov says the hospital took heavy damage, and more than 1,000 windows were shattered.

In Dnipro, strikes hit a residential area, a heating plant, a police station and a hospital, all in the Samarskyi district. Between 15 and 17 people wounded. Three of them critically.

Mayor Borys Filatov confirmed those targets. And a separate strike that morning wounded five more people, says Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional administration — including two men in their eighties, both in serious condition.

One report says a person died in the Dnipro strikes. That hasn't been confirmed anywhere else.

So what about the rest of the country?

A DTEK site in Odesa took serious damage. Nobody was hurt there, says Oleh Kiper, the regional head. One Ukrenergo substation was hit in Rivne. In Vinnytsia, most towns lost power, and hourly blackout schedules are now in place. And in Kharkiv, heating and hot water are partly cut, with metro trains possibly delayed because the power grid is unstable.