Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight left more than 1 million people in the Dnipropetrovsk region without water supplies or heating, a Ukrainian minister said Thursday, as temperatures dipped below freezing.
As in previous winters, Russia has intensified its strikes on Ukraine’s energy sites, leading to heating and water outages in what Kyiv and its allies call a deliberate strategy to wear down the civilian population.
The large-scale Russian drone attack also knocked out power in the Zaporizhzhia region, leaving thousands without electricity or heating, the state grid operator Ukrenergo said late Wednesday.
“Repair work continues in Dnipropetrovsk region to restore heat and water supply for over a million subscribers,” Restoration Minister Oleksiy Kuleba wrote on social media.
The Ukrainian air force said Russia attacked with 97 drones, with 70 downed by air defense system but 27 striking various locations, without elaborating.
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