The Russian military has once more carried out numerous drone and missile attacks once morest Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. “The occupiers struck at the critical infrastructure. Ten hits were registered,” Kharkiv military governor Oleh Synehubov wrote today on his Telegram channel.
There are power outages, he said. Impacts were also reported from other regions during the night.
Report: 17 shells in Zaporizhia
According to official information, 17 projectiles fell within an hour in the Zaporizhia region, which was also contested. “This is the largest number since the invasion began,” military governor Anatoly Kurtyev said on his Telegram channel.
According to media reports, explosions in the city of Dnipro and in the Vinnytsia region might also be heard during the night. According to the head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration, Serhyi Lysak, the explosions came from Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses. This intercepted all incoming drones.
However, in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, a rocket hit a power supply facility. “There is serious damage there,” and a 46-year-old man was injured, Lysak said.
Nationwide air alert
This morning there was another air alert nationwide. At around 8:30 a.m. local time (7:30 a.m. CET), the alarm sirens wailed once more in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv to warn of another Russian missile attack.
In autumn, Russia began systematically shelling civil energy infrastructure in its war of aggression once morest Ukraine.