This is not a response to the European aid promised to kyiv, it is the daily life of Ukrainians, confronted every night or almost with salvos from the Russian army.
Several tens of thousands of Ukrainians were without power this Friday morning in central and north-eastern Ukraine after a new Russian drone attack in the middle of the night.
The air force said it was able to shoot down 11 of the 24 Iranian-designed Shahed explosive drones launched against the regions of Dnipro and Kirovograd (center), Kharkiv (northeast) and Kherson (south), a region where two humanitarian workers French people were killed on Thursday.
The unmanned objects were launched from the Russian city of Primorsko-Akhtarsk and from Cape Chauda in temporarily occupied Crimea, according to kyiv.
Around sixty towns in the Kharkiv region without power
In Kryvyi Rig, where anti-aircraft sirens sounded at 3:34 a.m., three drones deprived some 40,000 people of electricity, said the governor of the Dnipro region Sergei Lyssak.
One of the infrastructures of the Ukrainian energy operator Ukrenergo was damaged following an overnight strike, cutting power to thousands of homes as well as two mines, where more than 100 employees are currently trapped underground.
Emergency restoration work is underway to restore tension to the network and restore mine exit routes.
By mid-morning, the DTEK company announced on its Telegram channel that electricity had been restored to 10,500 homes.
Some miners are said to have left the mines on their own.
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In the Kharkiv region, the governor, Oleg Synegoubov, also reported nighttime attacks by drones, rockets and artillery, indicating that 64 localities in the region were deprived of electricity, without specifying at this stage how many of inhabitants this concerned.
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Almost every night, especially since Vladimir Putin promised to intensify pressure, a large part of Ukrainian territory faces air attacks, sometimes suffering dozens of missile and drone attacks targeting urban centers and energy infrastructure. .
For months, Ukrainian forces have responded by launching their own drones and missiles against Russia, sometimes also causing civilian deaths.
The Russian border region of Belgorod is particularly targeted.
On Thursday, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR), Kyrylo Budanov, threatened to increase these offensives.