Ukraine, Zelensky: ‘Drone spotted over Komyshuvakha’. 600,000 people without electricity
Moscow’s air strikes on a container ship in Odessa and a power station in Zhytomyr. Two people have been killed and several others injured
“This morning, the Russians attacked Komyshuvakha with a drone. Rescue operations have been underway there for seven days following an aerial bombing that killed 55 people, and, sadly, there may still be people trapped under the rubble,” Voldymyr Zelensky reported on social media, describing it as “utter cynicism and cruelty”. “In total, this week alone, Russia has launched 115 missiles of various types, nearly 1,900 guided aerial bombs and over 3,000 drones at our towns and communities. These are combined attacks, many of which involve ballistic missiles,” he added.
The attacks carried out in recent hours by Russian forces in Ukraine “involve the use of numerous ballistic missiles”, of which “a significant proportion were manufactured this year”, the Ukrainian president noted on X, adding: ‘If the world does not have sufficient anti-missile capabilities to protect Ukrainian airspace, then the missiles must be stopped directly on the production lines.’
Russian forces have claimed to have struck a container ship carrying weapons and military supplies for the Ukrainian army in the Black Sea, south-west of Odessa. This was announced by the Russian Ministry of Defence. ‘In the Black Sea, south-west of Odessa, a hit a container ship carrying weapons and military supplies destined for Ukraine”, reads the statement published by Tass. One person was killed and some infrastructure was damaged in the attack, according to a statement posted on Telegram by Serhii Lysak, head of the city’s military administration. The Russian army then struck a suburb of Dnipro with a drone, killing one person and injuring two others, according to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, Oleksandr Ganzha.
At around the same time, the announcement from raid by Moscow on an electrical substation near the village of Beloshitsy, in the Zhytomyr region, some 170 kilometres north-west of Kyiv. According to the Russian armed forces, the infrastructure supplies power to enterprises within the Ukrainian military-industrial complex. ‘Overnight, drone strikes hit a 330-kilovolt electrical substation near the village of Beloshitsy, in the Zhytomyr region, which supplied electricity to facilities belonging to the Ukrainian military-industrial complex,’ reads the statement from the Ministry of Defence.
‘Over 600,000 consumers’ have been left without electricity in the Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, due to damage to the power grid caused by ‘hostile attacks’ attributed to Russia: this was announced via Telegram by Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the state and regional administration. ‘Hospitals and critical infrastructure are switching to generator power,’ he explained, adding that ‘technicians are working to restore services’.
