Russia unleashed another missile barrage on Ukraine overnight, igniting major fires in an eastern city, destroying dozens of structures, and injuring at least 34 people.
Moscow continued its winter policy of long-range attacks in the second round of national missile assaults in three days, in preparation for a Ukrainian counteroffensive that included the assault on Pavlohrad.
A house on the outskirts of Pavlohrad was blown up, resulting in a big crater in its lawn. Homes suffered extensive damage. Dorms in the city-center chemical industry with damaged windows.
I discovered the garage in ruins. Structures burnt and the glass broke. “If we had been outside,” local 61-year-old Olha Lytvynenko claimed, “we would have been killed.”
Viktoriia Suprun, 41, claimed she and her daughter took refuge in the hostel corridor. We dashed down the corridor and fell. The door was ripped open by explosion waves. She said we were imprisoned for about five seconds. “It’s terrible, my child needs psychiatric help,” we remained up till dawn.
According to Mykola Lukashuk, director of the Dnipropetrovsk local council, the assault destroyed 19 apartment complexes, 25 homes, three schools, three kindergartens, and many businesses. Five children were among the 34 injured, according to the governor.
The city is a rail hub in southeastern Ukraine, located between the east and south front lines.
After hours of air raid sirens, it seemed that other parts of Ukraine had been spared destruction. Ukraine claimed to have intercepted 15 of 18 cruise missiles. Authorities in Kyiv reported no civilian injuries or damage.
According to a Russian-installed authority in Zaporizhzhia province, Russian soldiers struck military sites in Pavlohrad. The unidentified industrial company, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Thousands of people were left without power following assaults on electrical distribution terminals in southern Kherson and central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk, according to the Energy Ministry.
According to a statement, grid repairs will take many days.
Three days before these attacks, Russia carried out its first large-scale air strike in almost two months, killing 23 people in a high-rise apartment building in Uman.
In response to Russia’s five-month onslaught, which gained little new land despite being the longest military campaign of the conflict, Kyiv is preparing to unleash a counterattack with hundreds of Western tanks and armored vehicles.
A Ukrainian drone attacked Crimea’s Russian Navy station in Sevastopol on Saturday. Kyiv has implied that the fire was started as part of its invasion preparations.
