The Russia-Ukraine war · theatre

Energy

68 events recorded; the latest on 14 October 2026.

Countries: Ukraine, Russia
What is included: Included when an official body of the affected state or two independent origins link the incident to the war.

Reported

10/14 Russian strikes hit Kyiv's three main power stations, leaving about 600,000 people in the capital temporarily without power

Kyiv · 1 source

Confirmed

08/20 Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant loses its last off-site power line and runs on diesel generators for almost three weeks

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant · 2 sources

Reported

07/04 Overnight strike on Belgorod damages infrastructure and cuts power and water across the city

Belgorod · 1 source

Reported

06/07 Drone damages the centralised spent nuclear fuel storage site in the Chornobyl zone; no radiation rise reported

Chornobyl Exclusion Zone · 2 sources

Reported

06/04 IAEA reports a heavy attack on the Zaporizhzhia thermal plant that links the occupied nuclear plant to the grid

Enerhodar · 1 source

Disputed

05/30 Drone punches a hole in the turbine hall wall at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant; Russia and Ukraine trade blame

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant · 3 sources

Reported

04/27 Drone strike near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant kills a driver, IAEA says

Enerhodar · 1 source

Reported

02/22 Russia fires 50 missiles and 297 drones mainly at Kyiv and its suburbs; one killed in Fastiv

Kyiv Oblast · 1 source

Reported

02/03 Russia's largest strike of the winter, 71 missiles and 450 drones by Kyiv's count, hits heat plants after the Kyiv pause ends

Kyiv · 3 sources

Reported

01/24 Missile and drone barrage on Kyiv and Kharkiv during the Abu Dhabi talks leaves 800,000 Kyiv homes without power

Kyiv · 1 source

Reported

01/20 Strikes on energy cut heat to 5,635 Kyiv buildings in sub-zero cold; UN rights chief says attacks must stop

Kyiv · 1 source

Confirmed

01/14 Zelensky declares emergency measures for Ukraine's energy sector, centred on Kyiv

Kyiv · 1 source

Reported

01/09 Overnight strike on Kyiv kills four and leaves almost 6,000 apartment buildings without heat in a cold snap

Kyiv · 2 sources

Reported

12/27 Missile and drone attack on Kyiv cuts heating to about a third of the city on the eve of Trump-Zelensky talks

Kyiv · 1 source

Reported

11/08 Russian strike on Ukraine's grid knocks out all of state generator Centrenergo's working thermal capacity

Trypillia thermal power plant · 2 sources

Reported

10/10 Large Russian strike on energy facilities leaves over 700,000 Kyiv households without power

Kyiv · 2 sources

Reported

09/23 Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant loses all off-site power for the tenth time, beginning its longest outage of the war

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant · 1 source

Confirmed

08/21 Ukrainian drones hit the Druzhba oil pipeline's Unecha pumping station, disrupting flows to Hungary and Slovakia

Unecha, Bryansk region · 1 source

Reported

03/21 Fire at the Sudzha gas metering station; Russia and Ukraine blame each other

Sudzha gas metering station · 1 source

Reported

02/14 Drone strikes the Chornobyl New Safe Confinement, starting a fire; no rise in radiation reported

Chornobyl nuclear power plant · 1 source

Reported

01/15 Large Russian missile strike on energy targets triggers emergency power cuts in six regions

Ukraine · 1 source

Reported

01/05 IAEA reports loud blasts near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant amid reports of a drone strike on its training centre

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant · 1 source

Confirmed

01/01 Russian gas transit to Europe through Ukraine ends as the transit contract expires

Ukraine · 2 sources

Confirmed

12/31 Five-year gas transit deal expires and Russian gas stops flowing to Europe through Ukraine on 1 January

Sudzha · 2 sources

Reported

12/25 Christmas morning strike with over 70 missiles and 100 drones hits thermal power plants

Ukraine · 2 sources

Reported

12/13 Russia fires 93 missiles and nearly 200 drones at energy facilities, Zelensky says

Ukraine · 1 source

Reported

12/10 Drone strike badly damages an IAEA vehicle on its way to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant rotation

Zaporizhzhia oblast · 2 sources

Confirmed

11/28 Another mass strike on the power grid leaves more than one million without electricity in western Ukraine

Ukraine · 3 sources

Confirmed

11/17 Russia fires about 120 missiles and 90 drones at Ukraine's power system in the largest attack in months

Ukraine · 4 sources

Reported

10/04 Car bomb in Enerhodar kills the head of security at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Enerhodar · 1 source

Confirmed

08/26 Russia launches over 100 missiles and 100 drones at Ukraine, hitting energy sites in 15 oblasts

Ukraine · 3 sources

Reported

08/11 Fire breaks out at a cooling tower of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant; IAEA reports no impact on nuclear safety

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant · 2 sources

Reported

06/20 Drones target the Afipsky refinery in Krasnodar region

Afipsky · 1 source

Reported

06/01 Overnight strike on energy sites leaves the Dnipro hydroelectric plant in critical condition

Dnipro Hydroelectric Station · 1 source

Reported

05/09 Drone hits the Salavat refinery in Bashkortostan, about 1,500 km from Ukraine

Salavat · 1 source

Reported

05/08 Mass missile and drone strike hits power plants in six regions, leading to rolling blackouts

Ukraine · 2 sources

Reported

04/27 Missile attack seriously damages four DTEK thermal power plants

Ukraine · 2 sources

Reported

04/11 Overnight strike destroys the Trypilska thermal power plant, Kyiv region's largest

Trypilska Thermal Power Plant · 2 sources

Confirmed

04/07 IAEA confirms drone strikes on a reactor containment building at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant · 2 sources

Reported

03/29 Overnight strike damages three DTEK thermal power plants and other energy sites

Ukraine · 1 source

Confirmed

03/22 Russia's largest strike on Ukraine's energy system hits the Dnipro hydroelectric plant

Dnipro Hydroelectric Station · 3 sources

Reported

03/12 Drone attacks set fires at Russian oil refineries in Oryol and Kstovo

Kstovo · 1 source

Reported

11/22 UN warns that strikes on power, gas, water and hospitals threaten front-line communities as winter begins

Ukraine · 1 source

Reported

10/29 Drone attack causes a fire at the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar region

Afipsky oil refinery · 1 source

Reported

09/21 First mass missile strike on Ukraine's energy system in six months

Ukraine · 2 sources

Confirmed

03/09 More than 80 Russian missiles, including six Kinzhals, hit Ukraine; nuclear plant loses outside power

Ukraine · 3 sources

Reported

02/10 Large Russian missile attack hits power plants in six regions; missiles cross Moldovan airspace

Ukraine · 2 sources

Reported

01/26 Russian missile and drone wave a day after tank pledges kills 11 and damages energy sites

Ukraine · 1 source

Reported

12/29 Russia fires 69 cruise missiles in its eighth mass strike on the grid; a missile falls in Belarus

Ukraine · 2 sources

Reported

12/19 Russia launches its largest Shahed drone attack yet, targeting Kyiv's power supply

Kyiv · 1 source

Reported

12/16 Barrage of at least 76 missiles causes nationwide emergency blackouts and kills at least four in Kryvyi Rih

Ukraine · 4 sources

Reported

12/10 Drone strikes cut power to more than 1.5 million people in Odesa oblast

Odesa oblast · 1 source

Reported

11/23 Russian barrage cuts power across Ukraine, sends Zaporizhzhia plant into blackout and kills a newborn in a maternity ward

Ukraine · 2 sources

Reported

11/15 Russia fires the largest missile barrage of the war so far at Ukraine's energy system

Ukraine · 2 sources

Reported

10/31 Missile barrage on energy sites leaves 80 percent of Kyiv without water

Kyiv · 3 sources

Reported

10/18 Zelenskyy says 30 percent of Ukraine's power stations destroyed since 10 October as strikes hit Kyiv, Dnipro and Zhytomyr

Ukraine · 1 source

Confirmed

10/10 Russia fires dozens of cruise missiles and drones at Kyiv and other cities, starting a campaign against the power grid

Ukraine · 4 sources

Confirmed

09/26 Underwater explosions rupture the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines near Bornholm; responsibility remains contested

Baltic Sea · 5 sources

Reported

09/14 Russian cruise missiles hit a dam in Kryvyi Rih, flooding homes along the Inhulets river

Kryvyi Rih · 2 sources

Reported

09/11 Russian strikes on power infrastructure cause blackouts across eastern Ukraine

Kharkiv oblast · 1 source

Disputed

08/31 Gazprom halts Nord Stream 1 for maintenance, then says it will stay shut

Portovaya compressor station · 3 sources

Reported

08/25 Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is cut from Ukraine's grid for the first time

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant · 2 sources

Confirmed

08/11 IAEA chief tells the Security Council the situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is very alarming as shelling continues

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant · 3 sources

Confirmed

04/27 Gazprom halts gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria over rouble payment demand

Poland · 3 sources

Reported

04/26 IAEA chief visits Chornobyl and calls the Russian occupation of the site very dangerous

Chornobyl nuclear power plant · 1 source

Reported

03/31 Russian forces hand control of Chornobyl back to Ukrainian staff and leave for Belarus

Chornobyl nuclear power plant · 1 source

Reported

03/04 Russian forces seize Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after fighting sets a training building on fire

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant · 3 sources

Reported

02/24 Russian forces take control of the Chornobyl nuclear site

Chornobyl nuclear power plant · revised (r2) · 2 sources