Russia pounds Ukrainian energy facilities with missile and drone barrage
Al Jazeera
Ukrainian officials say the attacks damaged infrastructure in five regions across the country.
Russian forces have launched a barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine that damaged energy infrastructure in five regions, according to Ukrainian officials.
Ukraine’s national grid operator Ukrenergo said on Saturday the attacks struck facilities in the eastern Donetsk, southeastern Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, as well as the Kirovohrad and Ivano-Frankivsk region in the centre and west of the country, respectively.
“Today morning the Russians launched another strike on Ukrainian energy facilities. Since March it is already the sixth massive, complex, missile and drone attack against the civilian energy infrastructure,” Ukrenergo said.
There was no immediate comment by Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022.
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