KYIV — Russia carried out its second big attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure this month on Thursday (Nov 28), cutting power to at least one million people across three western regions of the country, officials said.

"Energy infrastructure is once again targeted by the enemy's massive strike," Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko wrote on Facebook.

Ukraine's national grid operator Ukrenergo introduced emergency power cuts amid the attack, Galushchenko said.

Ukraine's top private power company DTEK said the power cuts impacted the capital as well as Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions.

Russia previously staged 10 massive attacks on the country's energy infrastructure, which hobbled the system and spurred fears of long power cuts ahead of the winter months.

During the Thursday attack on the western Rivne region, governor Oleksandr Koval said 280,000 consumers experienced power cuts. He also reported interruptions in water supply without elaborating on damage.

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