Zelenskiy says Russia waited for bad weather for attack on energy sites

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday 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 defences by between 20% and 30%.
“The main assault was in four regions,” Zelenskiy told reporters in Kyiv. “I believe that the weather conditions affected our capability to repel by something like 20-30%.”
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.