Russia targets Ukrainian vitality services with new barrage of missiles

Russia launched a brand new barrage of missiles and drones in an in a single day assault on Ukraine, officers in Kyiv mentioned Saturday, damaging vitality services within the nation’s southeast and west and injuring no less than two employees.

Ukraine is battling a brand new wave of rolling blackouts after relentless Russian assaults on vitality infrastructure that began three months in the past took out half the nation’s energy technology capability. In its eighth main assault on vitality services in a single day, Russia fired 16 missiles and 13 Shahed drones, the Ukrainian air power mentioned.

Ukraine’s air defenses intercepted 12 of the 16 missiles and all 13 drones launched by Russia, the air power mentioned.

State-owned energy grid operator Ukrenergo mentioned the strikes broken tools at services in southeastern Zaporizhzhia and the western Lviv area.

Two vitality employees have been injured in Zaporizhzhia when a hearth broke out at an vitality facility, in line with regional Gov. Ivan Fedorov.

With no main modifications reported alongside the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) entrance line, the place a latest push by the Kremlin’s forces in jap and northeastern Ukraine has made solely incremental positive factors, either side have taken intention at infrastructure targets, looking for to curb one another’s capacity to struggle in a conflict that’s now in its third yr.

Moscow’s in a single day assault on Zaporizhzhia and Lviv follows Ukrainian navy strikes on three oil refineries in southern Russia in a single day into Friday.

Air defenses destroyed 5 drones over the Sea of Azov and the nation’s western Bryansk and Smolensk areas, the Russian Ministry of Protection mentioned. A person was killed in shelling of Russia’s Belgorod area, which borders Ukraine, in line with regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov.

The governor of jap Ukraine’s partly occupied Donetsk area mentioned Saturday that Russian assaults had killed 5 individuals and wounded seven the day before today.

Within the Russia-controlled a part of the area, Moscow-installed Gov. Denis Pushilin mentioned three individuals have been killed and 4 have been injured in shelling by Ukrainian forces Saturday morning.

A policeman was killed within the partly occupied area of Kherson because of a Russian drone assault on a checkpoint, the Ukrainian Nationwide Police mentioned.