Ten regions of Ukraine were partially without electricity due to Russian shelling on Thursday, April 16. This was reported by the Ukrenergo company, Hromadske Radio reports. The PromPolitInform portal reports.
They said that as a result of a massive missile and drone attack and artillery shelling of energy infrastructure in front-line regions, consumers in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Odessa, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions were without electricity in the morning.
Later, the company published another message in which it noted that in the morning the Russians carried out a drone attack on the energy infrastructure of Southern Ukraine. As a result, consumers in Mykolaiv and Kherson regions were partially without electricity.
As for the two southern regions, according to Ukrenergo, the attack is still ongoing. Emergency restoration work will begin as soon as the security situation allows.
As for the remaining eight regions, whose residents were partially left without electricity, emergency restoration work has already begun wherever security conditions currently allow, Ukrenergo says. Power engineers are doing everything possible to return the equipment damaged by the enemy to operation as soon as possible.
As reported, eight people were killed and 16 more were injured as a result of the Russian shelling of Odessa with missiles and drones on April 16. In addition, a dormitory of the music academy in Odessa was damaged as a result of the shelling. There are victims among students. The ports of Greater Odessa were also shelled.
In addition, four people, including a child, were killed and 54 injured as a result of Russian strikes on Kyiv last night. There are also deaths in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
