Russian strikes tonight left more than 100,000 households without power in Northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to the regional center, the Ukrainian authorities announced today, quoted by the Associated Press, writes BTA.
The northern Sumy region, which borders Russia, was plunged into darkness after Russian strikes damaged energy infrastructure late last night, Ukraine's energy ministry said. Hours later, Ukrainian public television reported that Russian drones had struck the capital of the region, which is also called Sumy, and cut off the water supply by hitting power lines feeding the pump system.
Russia's RIA Novosti news agency quoted a local pro-Kremlin "resistance leader" as saying Moscow forces overnight struck a missile munitions factory in the city, which had a pre-war population of 256,000. The information did not specify what weapon was used, and the claim could not be independently verified. According to Ukrainian media reports, explosions rocked the city during an early morning air raid warning.
In Donetsk region, in the eastern part of the country, Russian shelling killed 11 civilians and injured 43 people, local governor Vadim Filashkin announced today. Five people were killed in the town of Selidovo, southeast of Pokrovsk, the eastern city that has become the epicenter of fighting on the front. On Saturday morning, the Ukrainian General Staff announced that during the past 24 hours, Ukrainian and Russian forces had engaged in 45 clashes in the Pokrovsk direction.
According to Filashkin, three more people died in Chasov Yar, the strategically located city in the Donetsk region, which has been reduced to ruins by nearly a month of Russian attacks.
On Thursday, a Ukrainian military spokesman told AP that Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from a neighborhood on the outskirts of Chasov Yar.