At least four people were killed in Russian bombings in eastern and central Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities announced Thursday, after several days of massive attacks from Moscow that left dozens dead and injured.
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In the Kirovograd region (center), a Russian missile attack “on an industrial installation” left one dead and “eight injured” in Kropyvnytskiï, Governor Andriï Raïkovych said on Telegram.
The national operator Ukrenergo admitted in a press release that one of its infrastructures had been “damaged”.
“High voltage power lines were cut following the attack. Domestic consumers and the railways are deprived of electricity,” said Ukrenergo, who nevertheless assured that the situation was “under control”.
In the southern region of Kherson, a 61-year-old resident died following a Russian strike in Stanislav, deplored the regional governor, Oleksandr Prokudin.
On the eastern front line, near Donetsk, a Russian strike left one dead and one injured in Katerynivka, according to Vadym Filachkine, the governor of the eponymous region.
The day before, Russian attacks killed one person and injured three others in the Donetsk region, the epicenter of current fighting and where Moscow’s forces targeted 11 villages, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry lamented on Telegram on Thursday.
Residential buildings as well as a gas pipeline and an electrical line were damaged, according to this source.
If Tuesday’s Russian strikes targeting Kyiv, its surroundings and Kharkiv (east) were aimed in particular, according to experts, at hitting weapons production factories, the Russian army is still conducting a low-level bombing campaign in parallel. on Ukrainian energy installations, in the middle of winter.
In addition, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region (center-east) announced that two people were injured Thursday by Russian artillery fire in Nikopol, a town located along the Dnieper River which serves as a natural front line between the Ukrainian and Russian armies in this area.
These strikes come a few days after massive Russian bombings on several cities in Ukraine, including its capital Kyiv, which left dozens 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 toll from Tuesday’s strikes to six dead in the country.
In Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia, a woman was killed and a man saved from the rubble of a building in Donetsk, hit by a Ukrainian strike, local emergency services said on Telegram on Thursday.