Russian drone attacks hit Ukrainian energy sites; Kiev strikes back
25 March 2024 11:22
The energy infrastructure was the target of military attacks by Russia, which focused last night on the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions in southern Ukraine. Civilians were harmed as a result of the attacks. 11 people were injured – the Defense Forces in the region reported on Monday.
Russian forces attacked the energy infrastructure in the south of the country - announced the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
"The enemy attacked with several waves of Shahed 131/136 drones from the Black Sea basin. Four drones were shot down in the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions" – announced in a statement.
Before the drone attack, the Russians launched an anti-radar missile Ch-31P from the Black Sea, intended to disrupt the air defense in the Odessa region. "The missile lost its combat capability in the air" – the Defense Forces in the south of Ukraine conveyed.
As a result of the drone raids in the Mykolaiv region, a fire broke out on the premises of an energy facility. In Mykolaiv itself, fragments of a downed UAV destroyed a two-story residential building, and the shock wave damaged several neighbouring homes. According to preliminary data, 11 people were injured, and two were hospitalized.
About 200,000 residents of Kharkiv, in the northeastern Ukraine, remain without electricity after a massive Russian missile attack on the country’s energy infrastructure at the end of last week – the head of the military administration in the region, Oleh Syniehubov, reported on Monday.
Ukraine responds
Ukrainian forces are responding in kind. Attacks are being carried out on Russian refineries and fuel depots, as well as thermal power plants. As we wrote at money.pl, further drone strikes on Russian oil facilities have resulted in a decrease in fuel production and an increase in prices at stations in Russia. Production fell by 4 percent. Prices at stations increased by over 25 percent.
Moreover, a fire broke out at a thermal power plant in Novocherkassk in the Rostov region in the European part of Russia from Sunday night to Monday. Social media users reported that the likely cause was an attack by Ukrainian drones.
On Monday morning, the defense ministry in Moscow announced that 11 Ukrainian drones were destroyed in the airspace over the Rostov region last night. The authorities in Kyiv have not yet responded to these reports.
