With winter approaching, Ukraine's wartime economy is under mounting pressure, 日本経済新聞 reports. Russian forces have been striking energy facilities on consecutive days, causing large-scale blackouts to recur, including outages lasting around ten hours in Kyiv.
The damage has not been confined to the power grid. According to 日本経済新聞, logistics infrastructure and major industries — steel among them — have also suffered severe harm. The paper describes Russia's campaign as an "economic war" that is eroding Ukraine's capacity to keep fighting.
The reporting places the blackouts in the broader context of a war entering another cold season, with the capital's residents facing extended losses of electricity as temperatures fall. 日本経済新聞 frames the strikes as part of a deliberate effort to weaken the country's economy rather than only its military.
Separate reports carried alongside the 日本経済新聞 article described other developments in the war. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said North Korean-made missiles may have been used in Russian attacks, according to FNN Prime Online, and TBS NEWS DIG reported that he described serious problems with electricity and heating supplies in the capital after a large-scale strike on energy facilities. NHK carried rolling coverage of the day's developments, while 福井新聞社 reported that a Russian air strike destroyed a shelter at a site used for distributing supplies in southern Ukraine, with the death toll there rising to 55.
Those accounts come from their respective outlets and could not be independently verified here.
What to watch next: whether repairs can restore power before winter deepens, and how far the strikes on energy and industrial sites continue.
