A rare humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine’s front-line Kherson region has ended. The truce had allowed civilians to evacuate the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky. It was due to end at 22:59 Ukrainian time, or 21:00 GMT, on Sunday, and it had held since it was put in place last week. Fighting continued elsewhere along the front throughout that period.

Sunday evening brought a bizarre and alarming incident. Ukraine’s air alert system was apparently hacked, and the country’s air force said so publicly. The warning that went out referred to radiation over Kyiv, which is a reference to a possible nuclear attack. The air force responded directly: "The Air Alarm application has probably been subjected to hostile interference. There is no radiation threat! Stay calm and follow our updates on our channel."

Power Cuts Hit Hundreds of Thousands of Homes

The alarm was not the only strain on Ukrainians that day. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had struck energy infrastructure in four regions overnight on Saturday. The strikes left hundreds of thousands of homes without power. Some connections were restored on Sunday, but the damage was far from fully repaired.

Repair crews worked through the day to bring the lights back on. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, most customers had their connections restored by early evening. The regional governor said more than 60,000 people were still without power at that point.

The attacks have forced authorities to act across the country. Because of regular strikes on energy infrastructure, emergency power cuts have been introduced nationwide. In the capital, Kyiv, electricity is cut off for most of the day. Water supplies there are also disrupted. Ordinary daily life, from keeping a home warm to getting water from a tap, now depends on repairs made under fire.

Deadly Overnight Strike in Vinnytsia

Lives were lost as well. Another overnight strike killed two people in the Vinnytsia region, including a 13-year-old girl, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. A child’s death is the kind of loss that turns a military statistic into a family’s worst day, and it landed in the same stretch of hours as the power failures and the false radiation alarm.

Ukraine Hits Russian Missile Fuel Producer

Ukraine did not only absorb blows. Zelensky said Ukraine hit a major missile fuel producer in Russia’s Rostov region. The strike caused a fire and damaged four production facilities. The attack was a direct response to the wider campaign, and it targeted the industry that supplies the fuel for missiles.

Zelensky Warns of Maximum Russian Pressure

Zelensky described the scale of the assault in a social media post. He said the intensity of Russian strikes has been "extremely high" over the past week. He also made a sharper claim about Moscow’s strategy:

Russia was "trying to take maximum advantage of the shortage of ballistic missile interceptors".

That shortage sits at the center of Ukraine’s air defense problem. Zelensky said that "every day" Ukraine communicates its need for Patriot missiles to the United States, Europe and other partners. He identified the Patriot as the only effective weapon for downing Russia’s deadly ballistic missiles. Without enough of them, every incoming missile is a question of what gets through.

He thanked countries for the support they have provided so far, along with their longer-term commitments. He did not stop there. He called again for more immediate aid, which signals that Kyiv sees the gap between promised help and help that arrives in time as the real danger.

What the Ceasefire’s End Means

The collapse of the Kherson truce matters because of what it was meant to protect. The localised ceasefire existed to let civilians leave Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city. Its ending removes that corridor for people who were relying on it. The truce had held since it was implemented last week, but fighting continued elsewhere, so the pause never reached the wider front.

The sequence of events over a single weekend shows how the war is now being fought across several fronts at once. Strikes on power plants and grid infrastructure leave whole regions in the dark. Emergency cuts reach the capital. False alerts about radiation trigger fear in a city that already lives under threat. Each of these incidents is separate, but together they describe a country trying to keep its civilian systems running while its air defenses are stretched.

Several points remain clear from the reporting. The energy strikes were widespread, affecting four regions in one overnight attack. The death toll from the Vinnytsia strike was two. The Rostov attack caused a fire and damage to four production facilities. The air alert hack was described by Ukraine’s own air force as probably hostile interference, and it stated there was no radiation threat. Officials also said more than 60,000 people in Dnipropetrovsk were still without power by early evening on Sunday.

What happens next depends heavily on how quickly the Patriot missiles Zelensky has requested can reach Ukraine. Until then, the country faces a long stretch of rolling blackouts, interrupted water supplies and the constant risk of strikes that the current defenses may not stop. The ceasefire’s end has removed a rare pause in the fighting, and civilians are the ones who will feel it first.