“Temporarily,
hundreds of thousands of households are without electricity. We are working to restore power and water supplies to people and businesses.
The situation is particularly complex on the left bank of the Dnipro,” Kuleba wrote.
In response to the emergency situation in the energy system, Ukraine has reached out to
Poland, Romania, and Slovakia for assistance in power supplies, as announced by the Ministry of Energy in Kyiv.
“Efforts are underway in the most affected regions to connect critical infrastructure facilities to backup power sources,” the ministry explained.
Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities during the night and early Friday severely damaged the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant in Zaporizhzhia.
Two missiles hit the dam of the power station on the Dnipro River, resulting in the shutdown of two generating units.
Massive overnight attack
Ukrainian forces have
destroyed 92 out of 151 targets used by Russia for missile and air strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, stated Ukrainian Air Force Commander General Mykola Oleshchuk on Friday morning.
“During the night of March 22, 2024, the enemy carried out combined missile and air strikes on critical infrastructure objects. As a result of the aerial battle,
92 aerial targets were destroyed,” he wrote on Telegram.
Oleschuk stated that Ukrainian defenses had downed 55 Iranian-made Shahed strike drones, 35 Ch-101 and Ch-555 cruise missiles, and two guided Ch-59 air-to-surface missiles.
Furthermore, he detailed that
63 Shahed drones had been launched from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area in Russia, 12 Iskander ballistic missiles were fired from the Belgorod region and the occupied Crimea, and 40 Ch-101/Ch-555 missiles were launched from 13 Tu-95 MS strategic bombers operating over the Caspian Sea.
Additionally, five more Ch-22 missiles were launched by five bombers in the Rostov region of Russia. Seven Kinzhal ballistic missiles were launched by a group of 10 MiG-31K aircraft in the Tambov Oblast. Two Ch-59 cruise missiles were launched by two Su-30 and Su-34 aircraft. Another 22 S-300 and S-400 cruise missiles were launched from the Belgorod and Kursk regions, Oleschuk relayed.
There are civilian casualties,
with at least two people confirmed dead, three missing, and several injured in various regions of Ukraine.
