Ukraine warns of difficult months ahead after 'massive' Russian barrage, power facilities in center, west of country damaged

Ukraine warned Thursday of difficult months ahead after a "massive" Russian overnight missile attack that left people dead and wounded across the country.

"Tonight, Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine," Oleksiy Kuleba, the deputy head of the presidential office said. "Difficult months are ahead: Russia will attack energy and critically important facilities," he added, as fears rise over energy security ahead of a second winter of war.

 Power facilities in the western and central regions of Ukraine have been damaged, the Ukrainian operator Ukrenergo reported.

"There is damage to power facilities in the western and central regions," the company said in a message on its Telegram channel. The company did not specify which facilities were affected.

It added that at night consumers in the Dnepropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Kiev, Rovno and Kharkov Region were left without electricity. It is now being restored.