Russian strikes cause extensive damage to Ukraine's power grid – president

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that Russian strikes have caused extensive damage to Ukraine's power grid and electricity transmission facilities.

Ukraine's Defense Forces also carried out strikes against Russian facilities overnight into October 9. According to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces, three facilities involved in launching missiles and producing rocket fuel were targeted.

In a separate development, Ukraine struck and partly disabled a data centre operated by Russian technology company Yandex on October 9. This followed a similar attack the previous day on another Yandex data hub in Sasovo, Ryazan region, which housed two of the three supercomputers used to develop the company's AI model. Yandex reported that it was assessing the damage and trying to keep its services going.

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