Ukraine's Power, Water Supplies Under Russian Attack Again

Russian strikes in Ukraine left residents without gas, water or electricity as temperatures begin to fall below freezing in some places.

Airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on Tuesday, part of what the country's president called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold and dark and make peace talks impossible.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said nearly one-third of the country's power stations have been destroyed in the past week, "causing massive blackouts across the country," tweeting, "No space left for negotiations with Putin's regime."

Depriving people of water, electricity and heat as winter begins to bite, and the broadening use of so-called suicide drones that nosedive into targets have opened a new phase in Russian President Vladimir Putin's war. The bombardments appear aimed at wearing down the notable resilience Ukrainians have shown in the nearly eight months since Moscow invaded.