Kiev, Feb. 10, (dpa/GNA) - Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with drone and missile attacks on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials, with the strikes triggering air sirens across the country.
In the Zaporizhzhya region in the south-east officials said 17 projectiles hit within an hour. A senior official in the Zaporizhzhya city council, Anatoly Kuryev, described it on his Telegram channel as the “largest number since the beginning of the invasion.”
Further north, close to the Russian border, Kharkiv military governor Oleh Synehubov wrote on Telegram on Friday that 10 strikes were registered in his area.
It has been nearly a year since Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Since then, the Kremlin has annexed four regions in the east of the country, in contravention to international law. Ukraine has fought back with the help of extensive Western military aid.
According to media reports, explosions were also heard during the night in Dnipro and in the Vinnytsia region. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration, Serhyy Lysak, said the explosions came from Ukrainian air defence systems which had intercepted all the incoming drones.
However, in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih a missile had caused serious damage to energy infrastructure, Lysak said.
GNA