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Russia launched dozens of drones overnight on Thursday, injuring five, as six regions face power cuts as a consequence of the strikes.
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The five people were injured on Thursday morning after a Russian attack on an apartment block in Dnipro, according to regional officials.
Oleksandr Hanzha, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, said that “flats on the first and second floors of the apartment building have caught fire,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, power outages are affecting six regions, including Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk, with the worst-affected regions being Odesa and Chernihiv, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy reported.
The ministry has urged residents to avoid using non-essential electricity during peak hours to help reduce pressure on the power system.
Russia’s daytime attacks have significantly increased in recent days, with almost 1,000 drones launched against Ukraine within 24 hours between Monday and Tuesday, making it one of Moscow’s largest aerial attacks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
Half of those were launched during a rare daytime wave, including Tuesday’s afternoon attack on the centre of the western city of Lviv, which struck a UNESCO World Heritage site and left 32 people injured.
Meanwhile, at least 20 people were injured on Wednesday in the regions of Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Donetsk, including seven in the Kharkiv region, according to regional officials.
Ukraine’s Defence Ministry advisor Serhii Flash said on Tuesday that Russia is constantly changing its tactics for massive strikes, “trying to find vulnerabilities,” and break through Ukraine’s air defences.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the scale of Russian attacks makes it ”abundantly clear that Russia has no intention of actually ending this war.”
“And when you consider that Russia is also helping the Iranian regime to strike across the entire region, the conclusion is quite obvious: without additional and strong pressure on Russia, without tangible Russian losses, those in Moscow will have no desire to step back from the war or to get used to peace again,” the Ukrainian president said.
