Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko wrote today on the social network "Facebook" that Russia is "massively attacking the energy sector" the country, Reuters reported.
Shortly after him, Ukraine's largest private electricity supplier, DTEK, announced that Russian forces had struck its power plants this morning, causing serious damage.
"This is the 13th large-scale attack on Ukraine's energy sector and the 10th on the company's energy facilities," DTEK wrote on the "Telegram" application.
Galushchenko explained that the company that runs the energy transmission network has limited electricity supply to reduce damage.
Russia has intensified attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the spring, damaging almost half of the energy supply network, leaving the entire country without electricity for long periods, the world agency notes.
Meanwhile, at least three people were injured in Kharkiv in a Russian missile attack this morning, it reported Reuters, citing the mayor of Ukraine's second-largest city, Igor Terekhov.
Ukrainian forces announced that Kharkiv had been attacked with a ballistic missile.
The head of the local regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, explained on the Telegram app that "damage was inflicted on civilian infrastructure", and it was "not residential".