Russian drone attacks in Ukraine left at least four dead and 19 injured on Thursday nightUkrainian officials announced. The Ministry of Energy reported numerous shutdowns and power outages across the country after the Russian strikes. On the Russian side, three people lost their lives in the Ukrainian attacks. TASR informs about it according to the report of the DPA agency.
Oleh Kiper, the governor of the Odesa region, reports one dead, whose body was pulled out from under the rubble by rescuers, and two injured. The attacks caused damage to port and energy infrastructure. Administrative, production and storage areas are also damaged. Fires broke out in several places. One person was killed and 15 others were injured in the attacks in the Kharkiv region bordering Russia.
Two people lost their lives in Wednesday’s drone attack in the Chernihiv region. “Chernihiv region survived Christmas under fire. Unfortunately, two people lost their lives and two others were injured,” local officials said on Thursday.
Ukraine’s air defense claims that Russia sent 131 drones overnight, of which 106 were destroyed by Ukrainian forces. However, there were 22 strikes in 15 places. Ukraine also carried out attacks on Thursday night, with the Russian Ministry of Defense reporting the downing of more than 100 drones.
The leader of the Republic of Dagestan in the south of the European part of Russia, Sergey Melikov, claims that three men traveling with the humanitarian convoy were killed in the attack. Another man was hospitalized. According to Melikov, the convoy was heading to the Russian region bordering Ukraine, he did not say where this incident took place.
The Ukrainian drone attack also caused a fire in the city of Temriuk on the coast of the Sea of Azovwhere tanks with oil products were set on fire. The fire affected an area of 2,000 square meters in this port city in the Krasnodar region.
