RRussia struck Ukraine with new large-scale missile attacks. The Kiev Air Force reported on Saturday morning that 21 out of 34 missiles and cruise missiles of various types had been shot down. She added that the attacks came from the air, the Black Sea and land. Energy facilities were attacked in the Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions, Energy Minister Herman Haloshenko said on Telegram. An engineer was injured.
Energy company DTEK said a total of four thermal power plants suffered severe damage. People were injured. “You will receive the help you need,” the company said. Workers are currently trying to repair the damage.
Weather alert throughout the country
There was previously a weather alert across the country. According to the Ministry of Energy in Kiev, the air strikes primarily targeted energy facilities. Attacks were reported in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv (formerly Limburg), and Ivano-Frankivsk. According to the authorities, two energy facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk region were bombed.
The authorities also reported that several explosions occurred again in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, which was subjected to repeated bombing and is not far from the Russian border. It was said that the grounds of a hospital were also subjected to Russian bombing. Buildings were damaged by the pressure wave, and some windows were shattered. A patient was injured in her bed. Authorities also released photos of the damage.
Russia, which has brought death and destruction to the neighboring country with its aggressive war on Ukraine for more than two years, has also been the target of attacks again. Russian air defenses said that the Ukrainian side intercepted and destroyed 66 drones in the Krasnodar region. Local authorities said that a fire also damaged facilities at an oil processing company in the area. No one is hurt. The Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, once again reported shooting down two drones. The information cannot be verified initially.
The governor of Russia's Belgorod border region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said five people were injured in a drone attack on a village on the border.