MYKOLAIV, Ukraine—Russian strikes hit cities across southern Ukraine over the weekend, as intense fighting continued in the country’s eastern Donetsk region.
Thirteen people were injured in strikes on residential areas of Dnipro on Saturday, according to Ukrainian emergency services. A video posted by emergency services online showed firefighters putting out flames and helping extract people from the rubble of several apartment buildings. Rockets also hit the suburbs of Zaporizhzhia overnight, according to the region’s governor; there were no casualties.
On Sunday morning, two Russian missiles struck transportation infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih, according to Oleksandr Vilkul, the city’s top official.
“The destruction is significant,” Mr. Vilkul said on Telegram on Sunday, adding that the extent of the damage wasn’t yet clear.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that the power supply remained restricted in 14 regions, plus Kyiv.
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Russian attacks on infrastructure have upended life in Ukraine over the past six weeks. As of Saturday, six million people across Ukraine were without power as a result of the strikes. The U.S., Ukraine and others have accused Russia of trying to freeze Ukrainians into submission by leaving them without power as winter approaches and temperatures drop.
In his nightly address on Saturday, Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky
said that engineers were working to restore the power supply and that the number of homes disconnected from the grid had been cut in half. He said the power supply remained restricted in 14 regions, as well as in Kyiv, the capital.
“We now have more ability to generate and supply electricity. But, unfortunately, not enough to make the supply completely stable,” Mr. Zelensky said. He urged Ukrainians to continue to conserve electricity, even when their power was restored: “If consumption increases in the evening, the number of outages may increase.”
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