Ukraine air defences overwhelmed as Russia pounds power stations

Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Moscow was adopting new tactics of attacking power stations with up to 10 or 12 missiles at a time. Photograph: Anastasia Vlasova/The Guardian

Ukraine’s air defences are being overwhelmed by concentrated waves of Russian bombing aimed at its power stations, acknowledged a senior presidential adviser after the destruction of an entire plant on Thursday.

Mykhailo Podolyak said Moscow was adopting new tactics of attacking power stations with up to “10 or 12 missiles at a time”, bypassing already stretched Patriot and other missile shields.