{"id":411,"date":"2026-09-30T20:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:04:31","slug":"russia-strikes-kyiv-power-grid-seven-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA POUNDS KYIV\u2019S POWER GRID \u2014 SEVEN DEAD! | Child among victims as Ukraine orders emergency blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another overnight Russian barrage just punched Ukraine\u2019s capital in the lights. Ukrainian authorities said at least <strong>seven people<\/strong> were killed \u2014 including a <strong>14-year-old child<\/strong> \u2014 and dozens wounded after drones and missiles hit Kyiv and surrounding regions early Wednesday, France 24 reported.<\/p>\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky said the main target was <strong>energy infrastructure<\/strong> in the capital and Kyiv region \u2014 nearly <strong>190 attack drones<\/strong> plus ballistic missiles. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported fires hitting private houses, a store, and a warehouse; debris was also found at a Western embassy site, he said, without naming it. Ukraine\u2019s largest energy company <strong>DTEK<\/strong> said it implemented emergency power cuts in Kyiv on orders from grid operator Ukrenergo.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow claimed strikes hit a Kyiv communications center, energy facilities supporting military production, and port infrastructure in Izmail. In Poland, Lublin and Rzeszow airports briefly suspended flights over \u201cmilitary aviation activity\u201d before reopening. Separately, a Russian diplomatic \u201cnon-paper\u201d seen by Reuters warned NATO that Moscow would be ready to use nuclear weapons if the alliance tried to isolate Kaliningrad \u2014 rhetoric NATO called irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi called it the first such massive combined energy attack since the end of last heating season. Ukraine\u2019s steel producers\u2019 union told Reuters steel production has halted after recent strikes shut remaining plants \u2014 a gut punch for a country that once ranked among the world\u2019s top ten steelmakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260930-live-several-people-killed-as-russia-launches-new-round-of-strikes-on-kyiv\">France 24<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/sep\/30\/russia-ukraine-war-strikes-zelenskyy-putin-poland-romania-macron-sanchez-spain-europe-latest-news-updates\">The Guardian live blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child among victims as Ukraine orders emergency blackouts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bb-kyiv-strikes-0930.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}