HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS LEFT WITHOUT POWER AS RUSSIA POUNDS UKRAINE'S GRID

Russian strikes left hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without power on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, while Russian authorities reported major damage to an industrial site following Ukrainian drone attacks on the Nizhny Novgorod region, Reuters reported.

Zelenskiy said Russia had hit power infrastructure in four Ukrainian regions overnight, cutting electricity to hundreds of thousands of households.

He said Ukraine, meanwhile, had hit the Kamensky plant in Russia's Rostov region, which he said was involved in the manufacture of Russian missiles.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, Governor Gleb Nikitin said a large-scale overnight Ukrainian drone attack caused 'significant damage' to an industrial facility. He did not identify the site that was hit; the region is home to the NORSI oil refinery, one of Russia's largest.

Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces had downed 235 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight. Ukraine's air force said it had shot down 371 of 433 long-range drones launched by Russia since Saturday evening, with dozens still in the air as of Sunday morning and six separate drone alerts issued in Kyiv since midnight.

Even as a six-day local ceasefire held on its final day around the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky, there was no letup in fighting elsewhere along the front line, and both sides kept up long-range air attacks. On Friday, Russia said Ukraine had resumed strikes on its oil refineries and accused Kyiv of ignoring a request from U.S. President Donald Trump to stop such attacks.