Russia Bombards Power Grid in One of War’s Largest Attacks, Ukraine Says

Russia renewed its campaign to destroy Ukraine’s battered power grid on Sunday, targeting facilities across the country with missiles and long-range drones in one of the largest and most complex bombardments of the war, Ukrainian officials said.

The attack lasted several hours and featured around 120 missiles and 90 drones, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement. Air-defense teams destroyed 144 targets, but at least nine civilians were killed, officials said. Mr. Zelensky said F-16 pilots had shot down 10 targets.

“The enemy’s target was our energy infrastructure throughout Ukraine,” Mr. Zelensky said. “Unfortunately, there is damage to objects from hits and falling debris.”

Later on Sunday night, a Russian rocket slammed into a residential apartment complex in Sumy, killing at least eight people, including two children, according to Ukrainian officials. The city is near the border with the Kursk region of Russia, where Russian forces have been trying to drive out Ukrainian soldiers who seized hundreds of square miles of territory this summer.

Earlier in the day, interceptor missiles could be seen streaking across blue skies over the Ukrainian capital, before exploding in thunderous claps. Similar scenes played out across Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said.

Russia used a combination of cruise and ballistic missiles fired from bombers, warships and land-based systems as well as swarms of drones from multiple directions. Ukraine had long expected a renewed attempt to collapse its energy grid, and it has come just as winter begins to bite.