Ukraine stated early Tuesday that power amenities within the nation’s northeastern Sumy area had been focused throughout an in a single day Russian airstrike.
“On the night of August 20, the enemy (Russia) launched a rocket attack on the energy facilities of the Hlukhiv community,” stated a press release by the Sumy Regional Military Administration on Telegram.
The assertion stated 72 settlements and greater than 18,500 individuals had been left with out electrical energy because of the assault, indicating that emergency and restoration works are presently underway.
It additional stated that electrical energy has already been restored to a few of the essential infrastructure of Hlukhiv, which is positioned about 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) from the Russian border.
The regional navy administration additionally stated in an earlier assertion that Sumy’s border areas and settlements had been shelled in a single day and within the morning, including that one particular person was injured within the area over the previous 24 hours.
Mykola Oleshchuk, the commander of Ukraine’s Air Force, claimed on Telegram that the nation’s air defenses downed three missiles and 25 assault drones throughout an in a single day Russian airstrike.
Oleshchuk went on to say that the missiles and drones launched had been downed over the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Sumy, and Chernihiv areas.
Local authorities within the aforementioned areas, together with the capital Kyiv, didn’t report any casualties of their respective areas.
Russian authorities haven’t but commented on Ukraine’s claims.
Source: www.anews.com.tr