At least six people were killed last night, including two children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office announced, reports Beta news agency.
"Russian forces attacked Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (east) and Odessa Oblast (south). Six people were killed, including two children," the statement on Telegram said.
Ukrainian authorities also announced that around 58.000 homes were left without electricity due to the Russian attack on the southern Zaporizhia region.
Since 2022, Russian forces have been attacking infrastructure, forcing Ukraine to limit electricity supplies.
Reuters reported earlier today, citing Ukrainian authorities, that nearly 60.000 people were left without electricity after Russia carried out an airstrike on the Ukrainian region of Zaporozhye overnight, and that two people were killed in the southern region of Odessa.
As winter approaches, Russia has stepped up missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's power grid, causing blackouts and forcing emergency crews in Kiev to rush to repair damage and manage planned outages.
The attack on Zaporozhye injured two people and turned buildings into ruins, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said on the Telegram app.
"Crews will restore electricity supply as soon as the security situation allows," Fedorov said on Telegram, where he posted photos of buildings with destroyed facades and windows.
Zaporozhye has been subjected to almost daily Russian artillery, missile and drone attacks, which have destroyed homes, crippled infrastructure and claimed numerous lives, as Moscow seeks to put pressure on Ukrainian defenses and disrupt communications between the south of the country and the rest of the territory, according to Reuters.
Fedorov said two people were wounded in the overnight attack. He added that Russian attacks had been carried out 800 times on 18 settlements in the region in the previous 24 hours, killing one person and injuring three.
Two people were killed in a Russian nighttime drone strike on Odessa, a city on the Black Sea coast, Ukraine's emergency services said on Telegram.
Separately, the death toll from a Russian airstrike that set a fire at a shop in the Dnipropetrovsk region on Saturday has risen to four, including two boys, aged 11 and 14, the acting governor of the region said, Reuters reported.
Russia did not immediately comment on the attacks.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia began with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but thousands of people have been killed in the conflict — the vast majority of them Ukrainians.
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