“As a result of this attack, a significant portion of our facilities have been damaged. Some of the damage is critical,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Naftogaz chairman Sergiy Koretsky said.<\/p>\n
“Some were successfully shot down. Unfortunately, not all,” it said.<\/p>\n
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Russian attacks on energy infrastructure caused blackouts in some parts of the country including in Chernihiv. (Reuters: Yan Dobronosov)<\/p>\n
There were power cuts in several regions, Ukraine’s energy ministry said, but did not provide further details.<\/p>\n
Russia’s military said it had attacked Ukraine’s “military-industrial” complexes in combined missile and drone strikes.<\/p>\n
Massive power outages in Ukraine are less common now than during the winter of 2022-2023, when Russian attacks triggered widespread electricity cuts across the country.<\/p>\n
The International Criminal Court in 2024 issued arrest warrants for Russia’s ex-defence minister and its top army commander over the strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid, which it said constituted a war crime.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has also launched retaliatory long-range drone strikes on Russia’s oil refineries, seeking to cut off vital energy revenues that it says fund Moscow’s army.<\/p>\n
A source in Ukraine’s SBU security service told AFP on Friday that Kyiv had struck a refinery some 1,400 kilometres from the front in Russia’s Orenburg region.<\/p>\n
Unverified social media videos showed a drone crashing into what appeared to be a refinery, sending a plume of grey smoke into the sky.<\/p>\n
The local Russian governor of the region said on social media a drone had hit an industrial facility, without elaborating.<\/p>\n
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