Earlier this month, Russia launched drone attacks against the energy system of the Odessa and Mikolayiv oblasts, both located in southern Ukraine / Photo: ReutersRussia has attacked Ukrainian energy facilities in three regions, damaging equipment and injuring at least one energy worker, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said.
Galushchenko said on the Telegram messaging app that the Russian strikes targeted the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine and the western regions of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk.Ukraine's air defence has shot down 21 of 34 Russian missiles fired in an overnight attack, the commander of the Ukrainian air force said.
Mykola Oleschuk said Ukrainian fighter planes, air defence missile units, mobile fire groups and means of radio-electronic warfare were involved in repelling the Russian missile strikes.Russia has intercepted 68 Ukrainian drones overnight from Friday to Saturday in its southern Krasnodar region and over annexed Crimea, the defence ministry announced.
The ministry said 66 of the drones were shot down over Krasnodar and the other two over the Crimean peninsula.