Workers clean a kitchen area in a hospital building damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv on Apr 27, 2024. KYIV: Russia launched a"massive" missile strike at Ukraine overnight, damaging four power plants in the latest barrage targeting the country's energy supply, officials in Kyiv said on Saturday .
"The enemy has once again attacked the country's energy infrastructure. In particular, facilities in Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv regions were attacked. There is damage to equipment," Energy Minister German Galushchenko said in a Facebook post. State electricity operator Ukrenergo said it had disconnected its main overhead power line in the west of the country as a preventative measure."We ask all consumers to consume electricity sparingly. Industry is asked to maximise electricity imports and use alternative power sources," Ukrenergo said in a statement.
One person was also killed and eight wounded in shelling of the southern Kherson region, Ukraine's national police said. Russian officials in the Krasnodar region reported a fire at an oil refinery in the town of Slavyansk-on-Kuban. "Air defences destroyed and intercepted 66 Ukrainian drones over the territory of the Krasnodar region and two over the Crimean peninsula," the defence ministry said in a statement.