(Reuters) – Russia pounded critical infrastructure facilities in western Ukraine, authorities said on Wednesday, in the latest airstrike on the latter’s hobbled energy grid as it approaches mid-winter.
The governor of Ukraine’s western Lviv region said two facilities, in the Drohobych and Stryi districts, were damaged in the attack.
In neighbouring Ivano-Frankivsk, the governor said local air defences were fending off Russian attacks on facilities there.
Both said no injuries had been reported but did not provide any other details.
Earlier on Wednesday, Ukraine’s national grid operator introduced emergency power cuts in six regions amid warnings from Kyiv’s air force of missiles launched by Russia during a nationwide air-raid alert.
Separately, Ukrainian energy minister German Galushchenko said on social media that “preventative measures” involving the distribution system were also in force.
Russia has carried out regular air strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid as its ground forces press ahead on the battlefield in the Kremlin’s three-year-old invasion.
(Reporting by Dan Peleschuk; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
