Drone attack in Odessa Photo: Nina Liashonok / Avalon / Profimedia
At least four people, including a mother and her child, were killed and several others injured in the Russian attacks on the night of Sunday to Monday in the Kharkiv region (north-east of Ukraine) and Odesa (in the south), residential and energy infrastructures were affected, including a power station in the Volhynia region, in the extreme north-west of the country, according to AFP and EFE, quoted by Agerpres.
The Russian army attacked the gas infrastructure of Ukraine for the second day in a row on Monday, said the executive director of Naftogaz, the Ukrainian oil and gas company, Sergey Koretsky. “During the day (on Monday), the enemy again attacked our gas production facilities in the Poltava region (in central Ukraine) and carried out new massive attacks in the Sumy region (in the north), which are continuing at this moment,” Koretsky said in a statement issued Monday afternoon.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones, including Iranian-designed Shahed drones, over Ukraine between Sunday evening and the early hours of Monday. Ukrainian air defenses shot down more than 100 drones, as well as several missiles.
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One of the people killed is a 71-year-old man from the city of Novgorod-Siverski (Chernihiv region, in the north of Ukraine). He was sleeping when a Russian drone fell on his house, local authorities indicated.
A gas pipeline was damaged in Odesa, according to Oleg Kíper, the military governor of the homonymous region.
In the northwest of the country, about 80,000 people in the city of Novovolinska (Volânia region) were left without electricity on Monday after the Russian attack last night, local mayor Boris Karpus said on Telegram.
Russia has been conducting an intense campaign of missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure since the beginning of this year, leaving hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without water, electricity and heat for several days in the dead of winter.
