More Ukrainian energy facilities targeted in latest Russian attacks

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Two rescuers are seen by a burnt-out car after a Russian precision-guided munition hit civil infrastructure, Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. -/Ukrinform/dpa
Two rescuers are seen by a burnt-out car after a Russian precision-guided munition hit civil infrastructure, Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. -/Ukrinform/dpa

Power infrastructure in the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv, Lviv, Kiev and Zaporizhzhya was hit in renewed heavy Russian missile strikes overnight, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on Facebook on Thursday.

The country's largest electricity producer, DTEK, said on Telegram that two of its thermal power plants had been damaged.

In Kiev, a fire broke out at a critical infrastructure facility in the outskirts of the capital. "Tonight the area was massively attacked with kamikaze drones and missiles," the head of administration of the Kiev region, Ruslan Kravchenko, said on Telegram. "The air alert lasted more than five hours."

At least 10 infrastructure facilities in and around the particularly vulnerable eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv near the Russian border were attacked with missiles, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov.

There was initially no precise information on the damage and possible victims available by Thursday morning.

According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia deployed several of its Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. Of 40 attacking Iranian-made Shahed combat drones, 37 were intercepted.

Ukraine has been fending off a full-scale Russian invasion for more than two years. Moscow has repeatedly attempted to paralyse the country's energy supply with airstrikes far into the Ukrainian hinterland.