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On September 11, five eastern regions of Ukraine were left without electricity. Partial or total blackouts occurred in Kharkiv, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Odessa regions. The authorities of the regions confirmed blackouts and power outages, TASS reports. The US State Department accused Russia of intentionally shelling power lines. The Russian Defence Ministry in turn reported that Russian Aerospace Forces, rocket troops and artillery carried out tasks to destroy units and reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kharkiv region. On September 12, Alexander Malkevich, a member of the Civic Chamber said that the Russian troops launched missile counterattacks on Ukrainian thermal power plants in central and eastern regions of the country. According to him, the shelling came in response to the actions of the Ukrainian side, which, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, attacked energy infrastructure in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic and Russia-controlled areas.
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