On a bright winter day, workers at a Ukrainian thermal power plant repair its heavily damaged equipment as drops of water from melted snow leak through gaping holes in its battered roof. Several weeks earlier,

More than 700,000 homes and businesses were without power across a frigid Ukraine early Thursday after Russia launched a widespread missile and drone attack on the country’s energy sector.Russian President Vladimir Putin said the “complex strike” was a retaliation for Ukraine’s using American-made ATACMS missiles to strike inside Russia.

Russia launched another attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Thursday, leaving over a million households without power and forcing emergency power to be implemented nationwide.