Russia’s drone attack damages energy infrastructure in four oblasts and injures civilians

Russian drone strikes in the early hours of June 20 damaged energy infrastructure in Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, state-owned energy company Ukrenergo reported. Reconstruction teams are currently on site to assess the damage caused by the Russian attacks.

At least three people – men aged 30, 41 and 63 – were injured overnight in Dnipropetrovsk region, the region’s governor Serhii Lysak said. Two of them were hospitalized.

The Russian attack on the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast also damaged seven private houses, five warehouses, cars and power lines.

Russian troops also attacked a thermal power plant owned by DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, and “seriously damaged” the facilities, the company said. Three power engineers were injured, DTEK said.

The company did not disclose the location of the affected facility.

Russia used at least nine missiles and 27 drones against Ukraine, according to a morning update from the Russian Air Force. The missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea and the Voronezh region, while the drones were launched from the Russian port city of Primorsko-Akhtarsk on the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov.

Missile units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Air Force intercepted five missiles and 27 drones over the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava and Vinnytsia regions.

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