Russia Pounds Ukraine’s Energy Grid as Kyiv Steps Up Attacks on Oil Refineries

Ukraine’s power grid came under renewed attack this week, with Russian forces using missiles and drones to strike energy facilities deep behind the frontline. “Another massive attack on our energy industry,” German Galushchenko, Ukraine’s energy minister, wrote in a social-media post. According to Mr. Galushchenko, key power stations were struck in Ukraine’s western, central, and southern regions, including Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, and Vinnytsia. On May 8, an unknown number of Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian energy facilities, causing significant damage and widespread power outages. Three Soviet-era thermal power plants were damaged by repeated barrages, Ukrainian officials said....