Russia launched 16 cruise missiles from land, sea and air as well as 13 attack drones, aiming at energy infrastructure in several regions, Ukraine’s military said.The energy ministry said this was “the eighth massive, combined attack on energy infrastructure facilities” in the past three months, targeting the southern Zaporizhzhia region and Lviv in the west.
Ukrenergo said outages across the country would start earlier than usual on Saturday, running from 1100 GMT to 2100 GMT due to damage from the attacks.In Zaporizhzhia, shelling over the last day also killed one civilian and destroyed residential buildings and infrastructure, according to the regional military administration.
Ukrainian troops based in the west shot down seven out of 10 cruise missiles fired by Moscow, the Lviv regional governor said. In the southern Kherson region, a policeman manning a checkpoint was killed by a drone, the national police force said.Russian attacks have destroyed half of Ukraine’s energy capacity, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
DTEK, the largest private energy company in Ukraine, said Thursday that strikes caused “serious damage” at one of its plants.