Targeted missile and drone attacks over recent months have crippled Ukraine's electricity generation capacity.
“The enemy attacked a number of energy infrastructure facilities,” the energy ministry said, adding that the Russian projectiles targeted sites in four regions, including near Kyiv.AFP journalists in the capital heard air raid sirens ringing out over Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday. President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that those barrages had halved generation capacity in the war-battered country compared to one year ago.
There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin on the latest barrage but Moscow says its forces do not target civilian infrastructure. The Russian defence ministry said it had downed 15 Ukrainian drones that also targeted oil storage depots in the southern Adygea republic and in the Tambov region. It said air defence systems were also activated in the regions of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv and Kyiv, among others.