LIVETEXT War in Ukraine, Day 805 | Massive Russian Attack on Six Kings Energy Facilities

The energy infrastructure in the Ukrainian regions of Kirovograd and Poltava was damaged following the strikes last night, local authorities announced, quoted by Ukrainska Pravda. A child was injured in Kirovograd.

“As a result of an enemy missile attack on the Kirovograd region (…), a critical infrastructure facility was damaged. An eight-year-old child was injured. Previously, 13 private houses and almost three dozen garages were destroyed,” the head of the regional administration, Andrei Raikovich, said.

The Poltava region was also targeted, where regional administration head Philipp Pronin says “an energy infrastructure facility” was hit.

“After the enemy UAV (drone) hit, a fire broke out,” the official added.

According to preliminary data, there were no victims.

Ukrainian energy company DTEK announced on Wednesday morning that three of its thermal power plants were damaged in last night’s Russian missile attack, BBC Russia reports.

“Another extremely difficult night for the Ukrainian energy sector. The enemy fired at three of our thermal plants. The equipment was seriously damaged,” the company announced in a message on Telegram.

DTEK did not specify which of its thermal plants it was talking about, but online messages indicated that one of them is probably the Dobrotvorskaia thermal plant, the largest power plant in the Lviv region.

Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko announced that during the night, Russian missiles and drones attacked energy installations in six regions of the country.

The Russian military has not commented on this new massive strike on the Ukrainian energy sector.

Russian forces attacked electricity production and transmission facilities in six regions of Ukraine: Poltava, Kirovograd, Zaporozhye, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. Cruise and ballistic missiles, Shahed missiles and drones were launched, the Ukrainian Air Force reported, cited by The Kyiv Independent and Ukrainska Pravda.

According to the Ministry of Energy in Kyiv, the damage is being investigated and work is being done to restore electricity and power generation capacity.

In the Poltava region, a Russian drone hit a critical infrastructure facility, causing a fire, regional governor Filip Pronin said on Telegram.

Residents also reported hearing explosions in Kyiv around 5:30 local time (same time in Romania). The Kyiv region military administration also reported explosions around Kyiv region, near the capital.

In the city of Brovary in the Kyiv region, a fire broke out at a civil infrastructure facility due to a Russian missile strike, Mayor Igor Sapozhko announced. Two people, a 62-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man, were hospitalized following the attack.

The attacks began around 4:30 local time. Ukrainian air defense operated in all regions of Ukraine. As of 6:30 a.m. local time, the military administration of the city of Kiev said it had shot down all the projectiles fired at the capital.

In the context of the Russian attack, the Polish Air Force announced that, together with allied forces, it had sent aircraft to protect Polish airspace.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered in front of the Peace Palace in The Hague to protest against the inauguration of Vladimir Putin in the fifth term in the Kremlin and called for his trial, reports the Reuters news agency, taken over by Agerpres.

The protesters – many of whom came from Germany with a giant float carrying a caricature of Putin, bloodied and handcuffed, in a striped prison uniform with a giant steel ball on his back to keep his neck and legs in chains – they carried Ukrainian flags and placards that read “Putin in The Hague”.

“We need to sensitize international public opinion about Putin’s crimes, he must be held accountable,” said Dina Musina, who works for a Berlin-based non-governmental organization that supports Russian prisoners.

Located a few kilometers east of the Peace Palace, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has an arrest warrant in the name of Vladimir Putin.

In March 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Russian Children’s Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for war crimes related to the abduction of Ukrainian children.