Three people were injured in a Russian drone attack on the cities of Dnipro and Samar in Dnipropetrovsk region during the night to Thursday. As the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, announced on Telegram, Russian drones attacked both cities; in Dnipro the roof of a private house caught fire, as well as private garages, as the Kyiv Post reports, citing Hanzha. According to the regional government, which MDR quotes, a critical infrastructure facility was also set on fire.
The reports do not reveal exactly which facilities were hit and how great the damage is. According to the authorities, emergency services were deployed at the impact sites to extinguish the fires and assess the consequences. Private property was also damaged.
Another attack on the energy supply before winter
Thursday’s attack is part of a series of severe Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy and civilian infrastructure. Only on Tuesday, 3 November, a massive wave of Russian attacks had, according to the Kyiv Post, damaged critical infrastructure in Dnipro, including a thermal power plant, and triggered emergency power cuts in Dnipropetrovsk region. At that time, according to the Kyiv Post, residential buildings, a police station, a hospital and a hospice for elderly and terminally ill people were also hit.
According to the Kyiv Post, Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukraine’s energy and civilian infrastructure as temperatures fall. The concern is the resilience of electricity and heating supply before winter. The available reports contain no specific information on outages or shutdowns as a result of the attack during the night to Thursday.
What the attack means for the people
The regional administration reports injuries and fires, without a complete picture of the consequences being available so far. How quickly electricity and heating can be secured in the region also depends on further attacks – the sources make no statements on this.
The Kyiv Post points out that Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukrainian energy and civilian infrastructure since temperatures began to fall.
