The strike using ballistic missiles and cruise missiles fired by Russian strategic bombers based in the Arctic Circle was the fourth large-scale aerial assault targeting the power system since 22 March.
"Unfortunately, we could not avoid the consequences, energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk and Kryvyi Rih regions were damaged, fires broke out," Governor Serhiy Lysak said. In the northeastern city of Kharkiv that has been heavily bombed in recent weeks, a missile struck a hospital holding 60 patients overnight, injuring a woman and damaging the building, nearby water pipes and power lines, the governor said.
The Slavyansk oil refinery was forced to suspend some operations after being damaged in the attack, Russian state news agency TASS cited an executive overseeing the plant as saying. Ukraine has lost 80% of its thermal power generation and 35% of its hydroelectric capacity during Russian attacks, officials say.
"It's difficult for the energy system to maintain the production and consumption balance. We have to help," he said.
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