Ukraine’s power grid operator says it will take longer to repair the national grid and restore power than it did after previous Russian missile attacks.
Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday morning.
The grid operator said, “Considering this is already the ninth wave of missile strikes on energy facilities, the restoration of power supply may take longer than before.
“Priority will be given to critical infrastructure facilities: hospitals, water supply facilities, heat supply facilities, and sewage treatment plants,” it said.
Nine Ukrainian power facilities are damaged during Russia’s latest missile attacks on critical infrastructure, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on national television.
“What we already see is damage to about nine generating facilities. Now we are still verifying the damage,” he said.
Ukraine’s air defences shot down 37 of 40 Russian missiles in the Kyiv area during an alleged Missiles barrage against the Unkranian capital, a spokesman for the Ukrainian capital’s military administration said.
The missile attack was one of Russia’s most significant since the start of the war, Mykhailo Shamanov said on television.
Ukrainian air defences also shot down 10 missiles over the Dnipro region, Governor Valentyn Reznichenko said in a separate statement on Telegram.
Russian missile shelling caused “colossal” damage to infrastructure in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and mainly affected the energy system, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
“There is colossal damage to infrastructure, primarily the energy system,” he said on Telegram.
“I ask you to be patient with what is happening now. I know that in your houses there is no light, no heating, no water supply”.
The deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, says on Telegram that two people have died in Kryvyi Rih due to Russian shelling early on Friday morning.
He wrote: “As a result of a rocket hitting a residential building, one of the five entrances was destroyed.
“Two people died. Six people were injured, including three children. There may be two people under the rubble, including 1 child”.
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