Ukraine on Saturday (February 7, 2026) accused Russia of massive air strikes on its energy infrastructure overnight, adversely impacting power generation and distribution, even as Poland said it suspended flights in civilian airports on its southeastern region due to the Russian military operations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia used over 400 drones and another 40 missiles of varying types to target his nation’s power grid, power plants and substations.
”Every day, Russia could choose real diplomacy, but it chooses new strikes,” Zelenskyy posted on X. ”It is crucial that everyone who supports the trilateral negotiations respond to this. Moscow must be deprived of the ability to use the cold as leverage against Ukraine.” Moscow did not immediately comment on the attacks.
Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said two thermal power stations in Ukraine’s western regions were hit by the Russian air strikes, damaging his nation’s power generation and distribution infrastructure.
”Russian criminals carried out another massive attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities,” Shmyhal said on the Telegram app. ”Energy workers are ready to start repair works as soon as the security situation allows.”
The Russian attacks reportedly came as temperatures in this part of the world began to drop, forecast to fall below minus 14 degrees Celsius in the next few days.
Russia and Ukraine were involved in diplomatic talks in Abu Dhabi in UAE under a US-led peace plan to end the four-year war, but with no tangible results yet.
Meanwhile, Poland said it had to suspend flights in its southeastern airports as a precautionary measure in view of the Russian airstrikes on neighbouring Ukrainian territory, and later resuming flights after the military operations stopped.
Poland’s Lublin and Rzeszow airports stopped flights on Friday night and resumed them on Saturday (February 7, 2026) after the NATO military aviation operations in the country’s airspace in response to the Russian strikes on Ukraine.
The Polish army’s operational command said in a post on social media platform X that there was no violation of Polish airspace, and thanked NATO and the German air force, “whose aircraft helped ensure safety in Polish skies today.”
“Operations of military aviation in our airspace, related to strikes by the Russian Federation on Ukraine, have been concluded,” the operational command said.
“Ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems have returned to standard operational activities,” it added.
The Polish army said its operations were “preventive,” aimed at securing and protecting its airspace in areas adjacent to Ukrainian territory that was the Russian target.
The Polish Air Navigation Services Agency said earlier that the two airports, both in southeastern Poland, had temporarily suspended operations as a precaution. Rzeszow, in particular, is a NATO main hub for supplying arms to Ukraine.
The US Federal Aviation Administration also issued a notice to airmen that both airports were inaccessible due to the military activity related to ensuring state security.
Last month too, Poland had suspended flights from the two airports at Rzeszow and Lublin airports, but for the NATO’s routine military aviation operations, though there had been no threat to Polish airspace.