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(Bloomberg) — Ukraine said Russia launched drone and missile barrages at cities across the country, targeting energy infrastructure and causing blackouts.
Ukrainian Air Defense said Monday that projectiles were flying over most Ukrainian regions, including the capital of Kyiv and the western Lviv region near the border with Poland. Lviv’s regional governor, Maksym Kozytskyi, warned missiles were approaching Stryi where gas transmission systems and storage infrastructure is located.
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The northwestern city of Lutsk, which has rarely been a target of attacks, was also affected, and a residential house was damaged, local mayor Ihor Polishchuk said, according to Suspilne broadcaster. He didn’t provide details on casualties.
Russia launched the massive attack as Ukraine continues its incursion in the Kursk region. That operation, the first foreign military offensive inside Russia since World War II, caught Moscow off guard and has prompted tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes in the region.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Saturday the cross-border operation was going according to plan, and was done to protect the Sumy region and also to capture Russian soldiers who could be used for prisoner swaps.
Explosions on Monday were also heard in central Ukraine, including in Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih, was well as in the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region. Local officials also reported explosions in the southern city of Odesa. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said 15 regions across the country were targeted by drones as well as cruise and Kinzhal missiles in the attack.
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“The desire to destroy our energy will cost the Russians dearly,” Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelenskiy’s office, said on Telegram Monday.
Several districts in Kyiv remained without power and water supply amid the attack due to the “situation in the country’s energy system,” the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on Telegram.
Kozytskyi also said that the power supply was interrupted in Lviv region.
Ukraine’s grid operator imposed urgent power cuts, the country’s energy minister, German Galushchenko, said on Facebook. “The situation is difficult, and consequences of the attack are being assessed.”
The air force in neighboring Poland said on the X social media platform that the activity had been ongoing since early morning, and was the most intense strike affecting Western Ukraine since July 8. Polish and NATO jets were scrambled to safeguard the country’s airspace, it said.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said 20 Ukrainian drones attacked targets overnight in several central regions of Russia. Two multistory apartment buildings in the cities of Saratov and Engels were hit during the strike, according to Saratov regional Governor Roman Busargin. Several people were injured, he said.
—With assistance from Olesia Safronova, Daryna Krasnolutska and Volodymyr Verbianyi.
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