Russian strikes kill four in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, cut power in Chernihiv

Dnipro, Ukraine. Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine’s industrial heartland killed four people and injured six in Dnipro, while an attack on an energy facility disrupted power supplies to nearly 100,000 consumers in the northern Chernihiv region, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.

Strikes on industrial cities

Russia simultaneously struck industrial enterprises in Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on Telegram.

The region is home to machine-building, steel-making and other major production facilities. Russia used missiles, drones and artillery in four districts, Hanzha said.

A business and warehouse premises in Dnipro were badly damaged. Businesses were also damaged in Pavlohrad and Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Missiles and drones

Ukraine’s air force said the barrage included an unspecified number of Oniks anti-ship and ballistic missiles, four cruise missiles and 212 drones.

Russia’s defence ministry said its forces struck industrial and military facilities in Ukraine, including fuel and energy sector targets, port infrastructure and vessels serving the Ukrainian military.

Power disruption in Chernihiv

An attack on an energy facility in a neighbouring region cut electricity supplies to nearly 100,000 consumers in the northern Chernihiv region, an electricity distributor said.

Moscow has escalated its air campaign, striking businesses, ports and logistics hubs as frontline fighting has largely stalled more than four and a half years into the war triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Both sides deny targeting civilians.