Page 2 - Power Generating Facilities News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Long. fred pleitgen, cnn, moscow. cnn's selma abd abdelaziz i following the story from london. the power generating facilities, that is according to the head of the country's power grid, what more are you learning about this? >> yes, rosemary. ukrainian officials accusing russia of failing on the battlefield, as you saw in that package from fred pleitgen. the difficulties their soldiers are facing on the front lines. in the absence of a victory on that battlefield, ukrainian officials accusing russia of intentionally targeting its civilian infrastructure of inflicting more and more humanitar...

Power generating facilities across this country now for about three weeks and it's reduced the capacity of the power grid to really keep a lot of the main functions in big cities like kyiv up and running. that meeting today with strikes today they have been able to take out so much of the water capacity in the city. also across the city the cellular network normally a good 4g signal now reduced to a poor 3g signal. the impacts are beginning to be felt more widely. the government saying today ten different regions were affected by strikes, 18 different strikes, a hydropower plant north of kyiv ...

Telling them to leave. and this does appear that russia is preparing potentially to give up that ground it's taken. nevertheless, strikes again hitting power generating facilities in three towns in the center of ukraine overnight, dm depleting their electricity and water supplies there. >> this is the pretext for the security meeting putin will attend. what is anticipated to come from it? >> hard to know what is said behind closed doors because russia has such an effective propaganda machine. we understand that it's already met today, it will reconvene later this afternoon. i think perhaps one...

Electricity is out in some of the neighborhoods meaning water supplies are out, and this is beginning to take an effect in different cities around the country. mykolaiv, like you said, destroying a flower market. john? >> seen a change in tactics by the russians. >> reporter: this does seem to be a change in tactics. they're using iranian-made drones more, but the fact that they continue to go after these important but not massive power generating facilities. russia appears to be embarking on a war of attrition, to step-by-step across all cities in the country degrade the electrical generating...

Mixed it up and used missiles to hit the power producing facilities so parts of the city, tonight without electricity, without water replicated as you were saying, big numbers across the country. the power, the guys here who sort of repair and fix the power grid reckon that the damage that's being caused most cases they can repair it within about 48 hours, but russia knows really well how the power generating facilities here work, that soviet made and cut and paste the same system -- the same factory layouts as they have in main line russia are here in ukraine so russia knows just how to targe...