A fire broke out in a fuel depot in the Adygea region of Russia following a Ukrainian drone attack early Thursday morning. The regional head wrote on Telegram that the fire has already been extinguished. The drones particularly targeted the city of Slavyansk-na-Kubani in the Krasnodar region in the south of the country, where a woman was reported killed, according to regional governor Vyacheslav Kondratiev. Separately, the Russian news agency TASS reported that the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defenses shot down 15 Ukrainian drones overnight, including six drones over Adygea.
For its part, the Ukrainian Air Force announced that Russia launched nine missiles and 27 Iranian-made drones, all of which were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses except for four missiles. It added that “vital facilities were attacked.” The main targets of the attacks were in eastern Ukraine, particularly the Dnipropetrovsk region, where DTEK operates. It noted that air defenses also intervened in the regions of Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Kyiv.
An Ukrainian power station was damaged due to a significant Russian attack launched late Wednesday into Thursday, according to the private company DTEK. The company stated, “Another difficult night for the Ukrainian energy sector. The Russians attacked one of DTEK’s thermal stations,” causing “significant damage” and injuring three employees. They indicated that this was the seventh large-scale attack on Ukrainian power stations in the past three months. The utility company Ukrenergo reported on Thursday morning that “a wide strike targeted civilian energy facilities” overnight, adding that “equipment in facilities in the regions of Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Kyiv was damaged,” although the extent of the subsequent damages remains unclear.
