Russian missile & drone attacks damage country's power infrastructure, Ukraine officials

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Kyiv: Massive Russian missile and drone attacks hit thermal and hydro power plants in central and western Ukraine overnight, officials said on Friday, in the latest barrage targeting the countrys already damaged power infrastructure...

The terrorist state of Russia wishes to repeat the ecological disaster in the Kherson region following Russias destruction of the Kakhovka HPP (blown up by Russian forces last year)..

A senior official at the Centrenergo generating company reported that the 10-unit Zmiivska thermal plant in northeastern Kharkiv region, an area subject to many Russian attacks, had been destroyed in a big wave of strikes on March 22...

Ukrainian energy minister German Galushchenko said power facilities in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Cherkasy had similarly come under attack...

The Ukrainian military said its air force had destroyed 58 Russia-launched attack drones overnight from a total of 60, along with 26 of 39 missiles of various types...

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