People in several regions of Ukraine have been experiencing power blackouts after the latest wave of Russian attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said there had been missile and drone attacks on critical energy facilities in seven regions.

BBC Verify has been tracking Russian strikes on energy targets in the past months and industry experts have said Russia has been shifting its strategy – increasingly targeting power plants to try to disrupt energy supplies to Ukrainians.

In posts on social media, Mr Zelensky said more than 50 missiles and 20 drones had been fired by Russia on Tuesday, hitting facilities in the Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.

Ukraine’s national electricity company, Ukrenergo, said there were new blackouts in nine regions and warned of possible power cuts across the country on Wednesday evening as a result of the new damage and ongoing fighting.

Before the most recent Russian attacks, our analysis verified damage to 12 facilities and Ukrainian authorities have reported at least a dozen more hit – with the impact ranging from them running at significantly reduced capacity to being taken entirely out of commission.

On 22 March, a series of air strikes hit power plants across Ukraine.

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