ALBAWABA - Ukrainian reports confirmed that massive damage has been reported at a power plant due to an overnight Russian attack.
The plant's operator reported that a Russian drone and missile barrage targeted Ukrainian energy facilities. Serious damage was recorded in addition to the injury of two employees.
"Another difficult night for the Ukrainian energy industry. The Russians attacked one of DTEK's thermal power plants," the operator said in a statement. It said that this counts as the seventh attack on Ukrainian power plants over the last three months.
Ukrenergo, Ukraine's national grid operator, announced early Thursday that a "massive strike on objects of civil energy infrastructure" occurred the previous night.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that the strikes have reduced generator capacity in the war-torn country by half compared to a year ago, and he has requested partners to provide more air defense systems to defend critical infrastructure.
According to Ukraine's air force, Russia launched nine missiles and 27 Iranian-designed attack drones, and air defence systems intercepted all but four of the projectiles.
Ukrainian Air Force said that "critical infrastructure objects were attacked. The main direction of the attack was the east of Ukraine, in particular Dnipropetrovsk region,".
