Russia launched more missiles at Ukraine in October than in any month since early 2023, targeting the country’s energy infrastructure and causing widespread blackouts, an AFP analysis of Ukrainian military data found.
Russian strikes have caused sweeping blackouts affecting tens of thousands of people, with Moscow targeting Ukraine's power grid for the fourth winter running in what Kyiv and its backers say is a deliberate and cynical strategy to wear down Ukraine's civilian population.
Russia's army fired 270 missiles over October, up 46 percent on the previous month, according to an AFP analysis of daily data published by Ukraine's air force.
That was the highest one-month tally since Kyiv started routinely publishing statistics at the beginning of 2023.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of wanting to sow "chaos" by striking the country's energy grid so intensely.
