President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says every power plant in Ukraine has been damaged in one way or another by Russian attacks, and has urged partners to rush equipment for a grid under relentless pressure.

Speaking at a summit in Madrid, Zelenskyy told Latin American leaders that Kyiv needs international cooperation "and we need it fast" to restore electricity infrastructure. He said repair crews were already working around the clock. The appeal lands as winter approaches and as repeated strikes on generation and transmission sites have forced emergency blackouts and industrial slowdowns across the country.

The same public briefing cycle noted continued overnight exchanges of airstrikes, reports of an attack on one of Russia's larger oil refineries, and a Ukrainian strike on a bus in occupied Luhansk that local Moscow backed authorities said killed five people and wounded 13. Those battlefield and energy details sit beside separate diplomacy in Brussels on postwar reconstruction and security guarantees, and beside White House talk of a wider deal with Moscow.

For Ukrainian cities the immediate question is more practical than diplomatic: whether transformers, turbines and spare parts arrive before colder weather multiplies the human cost of damaged plants. Zelenskyy's Madrid message was designed to widen the donor map beyond Europe and North America and to treat power repair as an urgent wartime priority, not a reconstruction task for later.