Night drone attack on Ukraine halts power plant, injures civilians

On the night of October 23, Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on Ukraine, halting electricity production at a DTEK thermal power plant and causing casualties and infrastructure damage in multiple cities. The attack involved 176 drones, of which 140 were neutralized, with strikes recorded at 19 locations and debris falls at 13 more. In Sumy, civilian infrastructure and residential buildings were damaged, injuring two people, while a railway facility in Poltava caught fire without casualties. DTEK reported significant equipment damage at one of its thermal power plants, without specifying which one. Russian forces have attacked DTEK plants over 230 times since the full-scale invasion began. Nearly 20 drone strikes also targeted Dnipro and the surrounding region, injuring two people.