MOSCOW, Jan 14 Critical infrastructure hit in Odessa region , said the head of the regional administration Maxim Marchenko.
«One of the missiles hit a critical infrastructure facility, there is damage,» Marchenko wrote in his Telegram channel, noting that the victims were avoided.
On Saturday afternoon, an air raid alert was announced throughout Ukraine, after which local media reported a series of explosions in Odessa, Vinnitsa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lvov, Volyn and other regions of the country. In Kyiv, Kyiv region, Odessa, Vinnitsa and Cherkasy regions, emergency power outages were introduced. It was reported that most of Kharkov was de-energized after the explosion that thundered in the city.
Ukrainian energy holding «DTEK» announced the defeat of two thermal power plants, one of which was stopped. The Ministry of Energy of the country confirmed the defeat of infrastructure facilities in a number of regions of the country, including in Kharkiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa and Kyiv regions.
Attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure of the RF Armed Forces began on October 10 — two days after the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, behind which, according to the Russian authorities, the Ukrainian special services stand. The strikes are carried out on energy, defense industry, military command and communications facilities throughout the country. After the strikes on November 15, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that almost half of the country's energy system was disabled. In December, Volodymyr Zelensky said that it is now impossible to completely restore the energy system of Ukraine.