Two injured and critical infrastructure damaged in Russian drone strikes on eastern Ukraine

Two people were injured and critical infrastructure was damaged in a massive overnight Russian drone strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk region Governor Vladyslav Hayvanenko said on Tuesday.

Hayvanenko said the attack had caused several fires to break out in the city, with residential and administrative buildings, shops, transport and businesses all affected.

The editorial offices of Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne and Ukrainian Radio in the city were also struck in the attack, Suspilne reported, adding that though the building had suffered damage, there had been no employees in the building at the time of the attack.

In occupied eastern Ukraine, the authorities in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) announced that the region had been subjected to an “unprecedented” Ukrainian assault on its energy infrastructure overnight, with the DNR’s Kremlin-installed head, Denis Pushilin, saying Ukrainian drones had damaged two thermal power plants, leaving “many settlements” without power, though no civilian casualties were reported.

Telegram news channel ASTRA said a drone strike on the Zuivska power station in the town of Zuhres, near Donetsk, had caused a fire to break out. 

Ukrainian drones struck energy infrastructure in the DNR for the second night in a row. On Monday, Pushilin said that half a million people had been left without electricity in the Russian-occupied cities of Donetsk, Makiivka, Horlivka and Yasynuvata as a result of Ukrainian drone strikes.