{"id":558396,"date":"2025-11-09T01:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558396\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:36:16","slug":"russian-strikes-on-apartment-building-energy-sites-in-eastern-ukraine-kill-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558396\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian strikes on apartment building, energy sites in eastern Ukraine kill four"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Russian drone has slammed into an apartment building in eastern Ukraine, killing three people and wounding 12 others, Ukrainian authorities reported.<\/p>\n

The attack took place early on Saturday, local time, in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city.<\/p>\n

It was part of a large Russian missile and drone barrage across the country that targeted power infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Ukraine needs Europe more than ever<\/a><\/p>\n

European leaders now feel a very existential threat from Russia but it seems their own problems at home are constraining them from doing anything about it.<\/p>\n

The strikes also killed a worker at an energy company in Kharkiv, further north, a local official said.<\/p>\n

A fire broke out and several apartments were destroyed in the nine-storey building in Dnipro, the emergency services said. Rescuers recovered the bodies of three people, while two children were among the wounded.<\/p>\n

Russia fired a total of 458 drones and 45 missiles, including 32 ballistic missiles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ukrainian forces shot down and neutralised 406 drones and nine missiles, the air force said, adding that 25 locations were struck.<\/p>\n

Authorities switched off power in several regions because of the attacks, Ukrainian Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk said in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n

In eastern Ukraine, fighting for the strategic city of Pokrovsk has reached a key stage, with both Kyiv and Moscow vying to persuade US President Donald Trump they can win on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday that work had begun on President Vladimir Putin’s order to prepare plans for a possible Russian nuclear test, according to state news agency Tass.<\/p>\n

Mr Putin’s order on Wednesday followed statements by Mr Trump, which appeared to suggest that Washington would restart its own atomic tests<\/a> for the first time in three decades.<\/p>\n

Energy sites attacked<\/p>\n

Russia has been pummelling Ukraine with near-daily drone and missile strikes, killing and wounding civilians. The Kremlin says its only targets are linked to Kyiv\u2019s war effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Russia’s Defence Ministry asserted on Saturday that the night-time strikes had hit military and energy sites supplying Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n

Moscow and Kyiv have traded almost daily assaults on each other\u2019s energy targets as US-led diplomatic efforts to stop the nearly four-year war had no impact on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries aim to deprive Moscow of the oil export revenue it needs to pursue the war. Russia wants to cripple the Ukrainian power grid<\/a> and deny civilians access to heat, light and running water in what Kyiv officials say is an attempt to \u201cweaponise winter\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said in an X post that the strikes damaged \u201cseveral major energy facilities\u201d around Kharkiv and Kyiv, as well as in the central Poltava region.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Vision provided by Russian authorities appears to show a Russian soldier fire an anti-tank missile system towards a Ukrainian position at an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 (AP: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service)<\/p>\n

Thermal power plants operated by Ukraine\u2019s state energy company, Centrenergo, were again knocked offline by the night-time strikes, the company said in a statement on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Centrenergo’s three plants in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions were damaged by Russian attacks last year and subsequently restored.<\/p>\n

Russian forces, meanwhile, repelled a \u201cmassive\u201d night-time strike on energy facilities in the southern Volgograd region, Governor Andrei Bocharov said on Saturday, two days after Ukraine said that it hit a key oil refinery there with long-range drones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Bocharov added that the strike knocked out power in parts of the region’s north-west, but caused no casualties. There was no immediate comment from Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday that its forces shot down 82 Ukrainian drones during the night, including eight over the Volgograd region.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two people were wounded in the neighbouring Saratov region after a Ukrainian drone strike blew out windows in an apartment building, according to regional Governor Roman Busarin.<\/p>\n

Fighting for Pokrovsk<\/p>\n

The city of Pokrovsk sits along the eastern front line, part of what has been dubbed the “fortress belt” of Donetsk, a line of heavily fortified cities crucial to Ukraine’s defence of the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ukraine and Russia clash over key strategic city<\/a><\/p>\n

Moscow says it is making advances in the key city, which it says would allow Russian forces to claim more territory in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.<\/p>\n

It could also be a key point in influencing Washington’s stance and sway the course of peace negotiations, analysts say.<\/p>\n

Russia troops advanced near Pokrovsk and the nearby town of Myrnohrad, according to the Russian Defence Ministry on Saturday, saying both were encircled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It also said Russian forces surrounded Ukrainian defenders in Kupiansk, a key railway hub in the north-eastern Kharkiv region.<\/p>\n

Kyiv did not immediately respond to Moscow’s statements, which could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n

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