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Bloomberg
4 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Russia Reports Major Power Failure in Ukraine's Occupied Regions
Russian officials said more than 700,000 households were without electricity in two Ukrainian regions it partially occupies, following damage to energy infrastructure. High-voltage equipment in the northwestern part of the Zaporizhzhia region was damaged, leaving about 600,000 households without power, the Russian-installed head of Zaporizhzhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky, said early Tuesday morning. In the neighboring Kherson region, around 104,000 households were also cut off after two substations were reportedly damaged, Vladimir Saldo, the Kremlin-appointed governor said on his Telegram channel.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Two children injured after Russians drop explosive on car in Kherson Oblast
Russian forces have dropped an explosive from a drone onto a car in the settlement of Komyshany in Kherson Oblast, injuring two children. Source: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram Quote: "Two children have been injured in a Russian drone attack in Komyshany. At around 17:10, the Russians dropped an explosive from a UAV onto a car carrying two boys aged 11 and 16. They have sustained mine-blast and craniocerebral injuries, as well as concussions. The younger boy has suffered a chest wound. The older one sustained injuries to his leg and arm. They have been taken to hospital. Doctors are providing all the necessary assistance." Background: On the morning and afternoon of 1 June, Russian forces launched artillery and drone strikes on the city of Kherson, killing an elderly woman and a man and injuring four people. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Al Arabiya
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Three people injured in Russian attacks in Ukraine's south, southeast, officials say
Russian drone attacks injured three people in Ukraine's south and southeast overnight, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday. Two people were injured in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhiy Lysak said on Tuesday. 'Air defense forces were working during the night in the Dnipropetrovsk,' he said on the Telegram messaging app, adding that five drones had been shot down over the region. The attack sparked a fire in a private house and an outbuilding in one district of the region and destroyed an agricultural enterprise, a private house, and a car in another. Nikopol district also came under FPV, artillery and drone attack, Lysak said. A 59-year-old man was injured in a morning drone attack on the southern city of Kherson, the military administration said. In the northeastern city of Sumy, a drone strike sparked a fire in a building of an industrial enterprise. A later air strike damaged at least seven private and one two-storey buildings and cars in another area, the military administration said. There were no casualties, it added. Russia, which began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, did not immediately comment on the reports.
