KYIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine—Ukraine accused Russian forces of attacking civilian infrastructure in response to a weekend offensive by Ukrainian troops.
Ukrainian officials said the targets of the retaliatory attacks included water facilities and a thermal power station in Kharkiv, and that they caused widespread blackouts.
“No military facilities, the goal is to deprive people of light & heat,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter late on Sunday.
Zelenskyy said that Russian attacks caused a total blackout in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, and partial blackouts in the Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Sumy regions.
Moscow denies its forces deliberately target civilians.
Zelenskyy has described Ukraine’s offensive in the northeast as a potential breakthrough in the six-month-old war, and said the winter could see further territorial gains if Kyiv received more powerful weapons….