Tens of thousands of households and numerous industrial companies in the city in the Dniproperovsk region in the southeast were cut off from supplies due to damage to a plant, as the Ukrainian energy company Ukrenerho announced. Paris confirmed the deaths of two French NGO workers.
Worker trapped in mining shaft
The Dniproperovsk regional governor, Serhiy Lyssak, said that the power outage also affected two mining shafts; 100 workers were underground at the time. Some of them were brought to the surface. Authorities said work was underway to restore power supply. Kryvyi Rih is the birthplace of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The massive drone attack particularly affected the southern and central parts of the country, Ukrenerho said. The Ukrainian air defense reported early in the morning that a total of eleven of 24 Russian drones had been shot down. The Russian attacks were once more targeted at important infrastructure. Ukraine has been defending itself once morest the Russian war of aggression for almost two years.
Two Frenchmen killed
“Two French humanitarian aid workers paid with their lives for their work on behalf of Ukrainians,” said French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné on X on Friday. “Russian barbarism has been directed once morest civilians in Ukraine,” he added. He expressed his condolences to the relatives.
“Russia will have to answer for its crimes,” emphasized the Foreign Minister. Ukrainian authorities had previously reported the deaths of two Frenchmen in an attack on the city of Beryslav in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson.
“Foreign volunteers were killed and injured in an enemy attack on Beryslav,” the region’s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on the Telegram online service on Thursday. “The Russian army killed two French citizens. Three other foreigners were slightly injured.”
A Ukrainian was also injured in the attack, the governor added. According to Ukrainian police, it was a Russian drone attack. The French people killed were two men and the injured were three men and one woman. “All the victims had come to the Kherson region as volunteers,” police said. The Ukrainian authorities often use the term volunteers to describe the employees of aid organizations.
