Russian strikes cut power to 600,000 in Ukraine as Zelenskyy says Starlink restrictions hampered defence, report says

Russian strikes damaged Ukrainian power infrastructure and left about 600,000 people without electricity, a report compiling Ukrainian statements and media headlines says.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly linked interruptions to satellite internet services with reduced warning and hindered defence, telling Piers Morgan on the programme Piers Morgan Uncensored that he accused SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk of restricting Ukrainian access to Starlink.

Zelenskyy also posted on X that Russia had launched 124 drones overnight and a further 145 during the day, calling the assault one of the largest he had seen. In the report's account, Zelenskyy said Kyiv received no early warning from partners before a Russian ballistic missile struck a major power plant in Kyiv and damaged a residential building.

The report quotes him saying that Starlink was blocked "because it was 1 am at night, (when) Starlink was blocked by SpaceX and the United States," and that he did not know whether Musk or others had made the decision. Those comments were carried in the outlet's excerpt from its sources.

Headlines cited alongside the report state that Russian strikes killed three people and damaged dozens of power facilities; the single full article text available links the power outages and damage to strikes across the country.

The account combines the casualty and infrastructure figures with Zelenskyy's statements about communications interruptions to portray how Kyiv says strikes and connectivity problems affected its ability to respond.

The report attributes the Starlink criticism to Zelenskyy and relays his claim that the restrictions affected military operations and the country's ability to defend against the Russian barrage. It does not include a direct statement from SpaceX, U.S. officials, or independent technical confirmation of the cause or duration of the Starlink disruptions.

Taken together, the reported facts present a picture in which Russian aerial and missile attacks damaged energy assets and left hundreds of thousands without power, while Ukrainian officials say interruptions to a commercial satellite service reduced warning and hampered defence.

The report documents the Ukrainian government's public accusations and the scale of the outages, but it does not provide independent verification of the Starlink restrictions or technical evidence linking them to the strikes.