Ukraine announced on Friday that Russian forces had fired 99 drones and missiles into Ukrainian territory overnight and that its defense system had managed to destroy 84 of them. “84 aerial targets were destroyed: 58 Shahed and 26 missiles” , the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement, referring to Iranian-made attack drones regularly used by Russian forces.
Three Ukrainian thermal power plants suffered damage after firing from Russian drone missiles, Ukrainian energy supplier DTEK announced on Friday. “The occupiers attacked three DTEK thermal power plants. The equipment was seriously damaged. After the attack, engineers quickly began to deal with the consequences,” DTEK said in a statement.
The Polish armed forces said their country’s military planes took off to monitor Polish airspace due to Russian missiles in western Ukraine. “Overnight, intense long-range aerial activity by the Russian Federation was observed, linked to missile strikes against targets on Ukrainian territory,” the Polish army command said in a statement.
“All necessary procedures for the protection of Polish airspace have been taken,” and Polish forces “are continuously monitoring the situation,” the statement added.
Russian drones and missiles targeted power plants in east-central Ukraine overnight from Thursday to Friday, the Ukrainian Energy Minister announced on Friday. An air alert was issued overnight from Thursday to Friday throughout Ukraine. This “massive attack” targeted targets, in particular energy production sites in the Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, and Cherkasy regions, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said.
The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region said in a statement that “this night, air defense forces shot down ten drones over the region – in the districts of Pavlograd, Kryvyi Rig, Dnipro, Kamiansky. Four missiles were destroyed over Dnipro.” “Several energy installations were damaged […] A man was injured on one of them,” added Sergiy Lysak.
In Kamianske, an agricultural cooperative was hit and five people were injured – a 5-year-old child and two women aged 19 and 47, who did not require hospitalization, and two men aged 36 and 47, who are in serious condition.
Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 minutes is mobilized to give you all the information on the conflict. On Thursday, Russian bombings continued on Ukraine. Several strikes left at least three dead and around fifteen injured, particularly in the south and east of the country. This sector borders the northern border with Russia and therefore regularly finds itself under fire from Russian troops.