Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure continue overnight, according to Ukrainian authorities
Russian shelling and missile attacks continued to target civilian infrastructure overnight, including gas and electricity facilities, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Five people were injured after Russia shelled the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday morning, Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said on Telegram, citing preliminary information.
“Among them is a 15-year-old girl. They are all in the hospital in moderate condition,” Reznichenko said, adding that two residential districts had been hit, and an “industrial enterprise” was now on fire.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told the Kyiv International Economic Forum on Thursday that “missiles are flying over Ukraine.”
“They are trying to reach our gas production facility, Pivdenmash [una planta de construcción de maquinaria en la ciudad central ucraniana de Dnipro] and some other facilities,” Shmyhal said.
And Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, said there had been “several hits on two infrastructure objects” in Dnipro in a Telegram message.
Three other men were hospitalized after being injured in missile strikes that hit “critical infrastructure” in Izium in the Kharkiv region on Thursday morning, Oleh Syniehubov, the region’s governor, said on Telegram.
The Odessa region in the south of the country was also hit by Russian strikes on Thursday, according to Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odessa regional administration, who said there had been “a missile attack on a regional infrastructure facility ” in a Telegram post.
A bit of context: The resumption of Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure comes after Moscow forces fired 100 missiles at at least a dozen cities and districts on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian officials and a CNN analysis of the attacks. The attacks appear to be the largest since October 10, when Russia stepped up its campaign to destroy electricity, water and gas infrastructure across Ukraine.