At least 14 people, including 11 in the eastern city of Dobropillia, were killed and 37 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks in Ukraine, its Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Besides the Dobropillia strike overnight claiming 11 lives, three civilians were killed in a drone attack on the Kharkiv region in the northeast, the ministry added.
The ministry said Russian forces attacked Dobropillia with ballistic missiles, multiple rockets and drones, damaging eight multi-storey buildings and 30 cars.
“While extinguishing the fire, the occupiers struck again, damaging the fire truck,” the ministry said on the Telegram messenger.
The ministry published photos of partially destroyed buildings engulfed in fire and rescuers removing rubble from the buildings.
Dobropillia, home to about 28,000 people before the war, is in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, 22 kilometres (13.67 miles) from the front line north of the key hub of Pokrovsk, which the Russian troops have been attacking for weeks.
The ministry also said at least three were killed and 7 injured in a separate drone attack on the Kharkiv region overnight.
The Ukrainian military said Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and one Iskander-K cruise missile as well as 145 drones.
They said air forces shot down one cruise missile and 79 drones. The military said another 54 drones did not reach their targets, likely due to electronic countermeasures.
Russia Targets Energy Infrastructure
A Ukrainian Minister on Friday said the country’s energy and gas infrastructures in various regions were targeted by massive Russian rocket and drone firing, triggering tension in the area.
Energy Minister German Galushchenko wrote on Facebook: “Energy and gas infrastructure in different regions of Ukraine is again under massive rocket and drone fire.”
He said: “Wherever possible, rescuers and power crews are working to eliminate the consequences. All necessary measures are taken to stabilize energy and gas supply.”
(With inputs from Reuters)
