New Russian strikes reported in Ukraine – media (VIDEOS)
Russia conducted a new wave of missile and drone attacks on Ukraine on Saturday morning, triggering power outages in multiple regions and disrupting railway traffic, local media and officials report. The Russian Defense Ministry has yet to comment.
Nikolay Kalashnik, the head of the Kiev regional administration, said three people were injured across several settlements in what he described as a “massive” strike. Ukraine’s state railway operator, Ukrzaliznytsya, said it rerouted trains following an attack on rail infrastructure in Fastov, around 70km southwest of the Ukrainian capital.
In Novye Petrovtsi, a village north of Kiev, a 5,500-square-meter warehouse building caught fire after debris from a downed drone fell onto the facility, officials said.
In Chernigov, a city near the Russian border, officials said a strike hit critical infrastructure, without providing further details.
Ukrainian outlet Strana.ua reported that parts of Dnepr in central Ukraine lost electricity, adding that blackouts also affected Kiev Region. Other media reports said Lviv also experienced power outages, with images circulating on social media showing black smoke rising over Lutsk, an industrial center near the Polish border. In Lutsk, the mayor reported a fire at a food supply depot.
The mayor of Zelenodolsk – a city near Krivoy Rog that hosts the Krivorozhskaya Thermal Power Plant – also reported ballistic missile strikes, without elaborating on the extent of the damage.
Later, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry confirmed that the strikes targeted energy infrastructure, reporting blackouts in Odessa, Chernigov, Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Nikolaev Regions, adding that “hourly outage schedules are currently in effect in all regions of Ukraine.”
The overnight barrage followed a Ukrainian drone strike on a high-rise business center in Grozny. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov condemned the attack, vowing that “the Ukrainian fascists will feel our tough response.”
“But we, unlike them, will not carry out cowardly strikes on civilian sites. Our attacks will be directed at the military terrorist facilities of the Ukrainian Nazis,” he stressed.
Russia has conducted strikes on military-related Ukrainian infrastructure for months, saying the attacks are retaliation for Kiev’s “terrorist” raids into Russia which often target critical infrastructure and residential areas. Moscow maintains that it never targets civilians.
