As Russian forces advance in the Donetsk region of Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of their wide-scale invasion, they have moved to the city of Kurakhove and are about two kilometres from one of the country's oldest thermal power plants.

Repeated Russian strikes on infrastructure have seriously impacted Ukraine's energy sector often resulting in rolling blackouts across the country. On Thursday, Moscow launched another large-scale air attack. Ukrainian authorities said nearly 200 drones and missiles targeted infrastructure, d isrupting power supply to more than a million people.

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,

Energy workers in Ukraine are repairing power grids as Russia continues its relentless drone attacks on the country’s infrastructure, causing rolling blackouts across the country over the past month.

Weeks earlier, the facility was the target of a Russian air attack that left scorch marks, shrapnel scars on the walls, and missile fragments scattered across the production floor.