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At least six people have been killed and 36 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine in the past day, according to local authorities on Sunday.
Russian forces launched 98 drones at Ukraine in overnight attacks, including around 60 Shahed drones. However, according to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, 69 of them were either shot down or jammed.
Despite defence efforts, 27 of the drones targeted 12 locations.
Russian forces also used multiple rocket launchers and glide bombs. A drone strike on Dnipro, a city in central Ukraine, hit a residential building, injuring at least 15 people, including a child, according to local authorities. The strikes sparked fires in both private homes and apartment buildings.
Police have received 61 reports of property damage from residents following the overnight attack. Meanwhile, law enforcement officers reportedly remained at the scene, documenting the consequences of the shelling.
According to the mayor, five houses were damaged in total. Around 200 windows were shattered, and one building sustained roof damage. Experts are now assessing the most heavily affected nine-storey building to determine the full extent of the destruction.
Zaporizhzhia also came under drone attacks, leaving two people dead, as a strike on a supermarket and residential buildings injured six people, the local governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram.
In the often-hit southern port city of Odesa, emergency crews extinguished a fire that broke out after Russian forces struck energy facilities on Sunday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported.
According to the SES, Russian drones targeted critical energy infrastructure and also hit an industrial building.
Fire crews battled a blaze after Russia struck the Sumy region overnight, injuring a rescuer, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.
A missile hit a fire and rescue unit in the Shostka district, damaging a building and equipment. One rescuer was taken to hospital.
In another part of the district, a Russian drone strike ignited a building fire, which crews later extinguished.
Ukraine strikes thermal power plant in Moscow region
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military reportedly struck the deep into Russia Shatura Thermal Power Plant in the Moscow region overnight, according to regional governor’s Andrei Vorobyov Telegram channel.
As Members of a pro-Ukrainian partisan group called Atesh have declared to have sabotaged an electric locomotive allegedly used for transporting military cargo from the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
Pro-Ukrainian movements regularly commit sabotage attacks on Russian territory and in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, just as Ukraine routinely launches strikes against military and industrial facilities in Russia.
In recent weeks, Moscow has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure in an effort to weaken the country as winter sets in.
