Ukraine’s coming winter looks colder after Russia targets energy supply

Civilians likely biggest losers after Russia delivers rapid knockout to nearly a third of country's power plants

• Ukraine says 30% of its power plants destroyed in last eight days

It is a grim warning. While attention has been focused on the civilian casualties and chaos caused by Russia's renewed bombing of Kyiv and other major cities, its impact on the country's energy supply has not been quantified until today.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced that 30% of the country's power stations had been knocked out in just eight days, an astonishing proportion in a short amount of time with blackouts occurring in the east of the capital.