Russia rained missiles and drones on Ukraine in a mass overnight attack, officials said yesterday, killing at least five people and damaging civilian infrastructure including energy facilities across numerous regions.
Moscow has stepped up attacks particularly on Ukraine’s energy grid and gas production sites in recent weeks as the fourth winter of war approaches, and as diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have stalled.
Four of the victims in the overnight attacks were family members killed when their residential building in the western region of Lviv bordering Poland was destroyed, local prosecutors said.
An industrial park in Lviv’s regional capital was also set ablaze and parts of the city had been left without power, said mayor Andriy Sadovyi, who had urged residents early yesterday to stay inside as authorities battled multiple fires.
A Reuters correspondent heard explosions booming across the dark morning sky as air defences engaged targets from several directions.
The attack on Lviv was the largest of the war on the Lviv region, said governor Maksym Kozytskyi, adding it involved 140 drones and 23 missiles.
In the village outside Lviv where the family members were killed, rescue workers dug through heaps of rubble. Only the foundation of their building remained.
Volodymyr Hutnyk, a local official, said 10 other nearby homes were damaged beyond repair.
In southeastern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed and 10 others wounded in a combined strike that left more than 73,000 customers without power, said governor Ivan Fedorov.
Service had been restored to more than 20,000 by early afternoon, he said.
Civilian infrastructure was also damaged in the regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Chernihiv, Kherson, Kharkiv and Odesa, said Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
Ukraine’s energy ministry said energy facilities had been damaged in Zaporizhzhia and the northern Chernihiv region.
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