Russian strikes killed two civilians in eastern Ukraine last night. According to the AFP agency, the Ukrainian authorities stated this. One dead civilian and one wounded woman after the Russian shelling of Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region were also announced by the head of the regional administration, Serhij Lysak. Ukrainian websites also report on other Russian attacks on the energy system. Authorities in Russia’s Rostov region reported that air defenses destroyed 26 drones during the night. According to Ukrainian media, the attack hit Millerovo Air Base.
Two people were killed and four others were injured in a Russian strike near the city of Izjum in the Kharkiv region. About 50 buildings were damaged. According to the initial investigation by the Ukrainian authorities, three Russian Iskander missiles landed in the area, AFP writes.
The Russian Rostov region, which plays an important role in the logistics of the Russian war in Ukraine, has been repeatedly attacked by the Ukrainian army in recent weeks. “During the past night, air defense forces intercepted and destroyed a total of 26 drones over the Rostov region. The attack did not cause casualties,” the governor of the Rostov region, Vasiliy Golubev, said this morning. Another drone was shot down by air defense over Russia’s Smolensk region.
The Ukrainska Pravda server added to the attack that information about several explosions at the Russian Millerovo Air Base is circulating on social networks. According to some of these sources, the fire broke out on the premises of the airport in the Rostov region.
Russian strikes at night damaged energy facilities in the Poltava, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, which, according to the Ukrener company, caused power outages. The number of dead increased to four after Friday’s Russian strike on the city of Mykolaiv. Earlier, authorities reported three dead. However, one man subsequently died in hospital.
The explosions were also heard by the residents of Kyiv during the night of today. According to local authorities, air defenses “destroyed enemy unmanned aerial vehicles”. Debris of at least one drone landed in a populated area of the Ukrainian capital.
Source: www.tyden.cz
