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Russia's top general reports start of large-scale strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Russia's Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Vladimir Putin on 16 October that Russian forces had begun a campaign of massive strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities. The announcement came days after a US-brokered "energy ceasefire" and rounds of reciprocal strikes on energy and refinery targets. Energy infrastructure was hit in Kyiv and five oblasts, causing emergency outages, while Ukrainian energy workers restored power to more than one million consumers during the day.