Explosions were heard in the Ukrainian cities of Odesa, Kropyvnytskyi, Kharkiv, Rivne and Lutsk on Thursday morning amid reports of a Russian cruise missile attack, Ukrainian news outlets Zerkalo Tyzhnya and Suspilne said.
“Energy infrastructure is once again targeted by the enemy’s massive strike,” said the Ukrainian energy minister, German Galushchenko.
The Kharkiv mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said: “The enemy continues to attack Kharkiv with missiles.
The Odesa regional governor, Oleh Kiper, urged residents to stay in shelter.
The Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said air defence was at work.
The national power grid operator Ukrenergo had “urgently introduced emergency power cuts”, said the energy minister, German Galushchenko, as temperatures across the country dropped to around freezing.
One energy supplier, DTEK, said Ukrenergo was introducing emergency power outages in the regions of Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Donetsk.
Source: The Guardian
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