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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday (October 10) that Russia deliberately waited for bad weather before staging a vast attack on Ukraine's energy system, adding the conditions reduced the efficiency of air defence by between 20% and 30%.

Russian drones and missiles struck Ukrainian energy facilities overnight, plunging parts of Kyiv into darkness, cutting power and water to homes and halting a metro link across the Dnipro river. Ukraine's energy ministry said 380,000 customers were still disconnected on Friday afternoon.

Zelenskiy said Russia had struck a strong blow to Ukraine but "definitely not fatal."

Zelenskiy said there were 203 energy facilities in the country which needed air defences to protect them from Russia.

He said he hoped the "coalition of the willing," a group of countries pledged to strengthen support for Ukraine, would hold a new meeting this month.

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