At least three people were killed in a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in the city of Poltava in central Ukraine, local authorities said on Saturday.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service said that 10 more people, including a child, were injured in the attack, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reported.
The attack destroyed part of the apartment block from the first to the fifth floor, causing a fire. Neighboring buildings and about a dozen vehicles were also damaged.
Previously, the Poltava military administration announced that the Russian attack also damaged infrastructure in the Mirgorod district, leaving dozens of households without electricity.
Emergency restrictions are also in place in several other regions of Ukraine, national operator Ukrenerho announced on Telegram.
"Due to the missile attack, an emergency power outage has been introduced in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kirovograd regions," Ukrenerho said.
There were also reports of casualties in attacks in the Kharkiv and Zaporizhia regions during the night of Friday to Saturday.
Ukraine's Energy Ministry said Russia has carried out more than 1.000 strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure since October 2022. In 2024 alone, nine gigawatts of generation capacity were reportedly lost to attacks, roughly half of Ukraine's peak winter demand.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on Saturday that there had been 24 combat engagements in the previous 134 hours.
According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian forces are exerting the greatest pressure in the direction of Pokrovskoye in the Donetsk region, while Kiev stated that its forces have repelled dozens of Russian attacks.
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