On the night of March 24, the Russian army attacked the Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy, Kiev, Volyn and Lvov regions of Ukraine with cruise missiles and suicide bombs, said the commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Nikolai Oleshchuk.
The operational command of the Polish army reported that at 4:23 a.m. local time, one of the Russian cruise missiles entered the country's airspace near the city of Ocerdow and remained there for 39 seconds. The missile was monitored by military radar systems throughout the flight, the report said.
Due to falling debris in Krivoy Rog, heating networks and power lines were damaged, wrote the head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration Sergei Lysak: “Due to a voltage drop in the city, several boiler houses were turned off. Six hospitals and more than one and a half hundred educational institutions were left without heat. And another 3 thousand houses, where a total of 76 thousand people live.” In the Nikopol area, debris from a downed UAV damaged an energy facility.
The head of the Lviv region, Maxim Kozitsky, said that this morning Russia attacked the same infrastructure facility that came under fire last night with Kinzhal missiles. According to him, the firefighters who worked at the scene managed to warn about the attack.
In total, according to the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, at night Russia fired 29 cruise missiles into Ukraine, 18 of which were shot down, and 28 Shahed-type drones, 25 of which were shot down.
One of the largest Russian attacks on the Ukrainian energy system since the beginning of the war