At least four people have been killed in Russian bombings in eastern and central Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities announced on Thursday, after several days of massive attacks from Moscow that left dozens of people dead and injured.
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In the Kirovograd region (center), a Russian missile attack “on an industrial facility” left one dead and “eight injured” in Kropyvnytskiï, Governor Andriï Raïkovych said on Telegram.
National operator Ukrenergo admitted in a press release that one of its infrastructures had been “damaged”.
“After the attack, high-voltage power lines were cut. “Domestic consumers and the railways will be deprived of electricity,” said Ukrenergo, which, however, assured that the situation was “under control”.
In the southern Kherson region, a 61-year-old resident died after a Russian attack in Stanislav, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin lamented.
According to Vadym Filachkine, the governor of the region of the same name, a Russian attack on the Eastern Front near Donetsk left one dead and one injured in Katerynivka.
The day before, Russian attacks killed one person and injured three others in the Donetsk region, the epicenter of the current fighting and where Moscow forces attacked 11 villages, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry complained on Telegram on Thursday.
According to the source, residential buildings as well as a gas pipe and a power line were damaged.
If, according to experts, the Russian attacks on Kiev, its surroundings and Kharkiv (east) on Tuesday were aimed, in particular, at hitting weapons production factories, in parallel the Russian army is still conducting a bombing raid on Ukrainian energy facilities in the middle of winter.
In addition, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk (Middle-East) region announced that two people were injured by Russian artillery fire on Thursday in Nikopol, a city on the Dnieper that serves as a natural front line between the Ukrainian and Russian armies here in the area.
These attacks come days after massive Russian bombings on several cities in Ukraine, including the capital Kiev, which left dozens of people dead and injured.
An 84-year-old woman died of her injuries in hospital, the regional prosecutor's office in Kharkiv (East) said on Thursday, bringing the total number of victims of Tuesday's strikes to six dead in the country.
In Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory, a woman was killed and a man was rescued from the rubble of a building in Donetsk hit by a Ukrainian attack, local emergency services said on Telegram on Thursday.