3 killed in Russia strike on Kharkiv, 36 Ukraine drones dest...

3 killed in Russia strike on Kharkiv, 36 Ukraine drones destroyed

Three people in Ukraine died as a result of Russian strikes in Kharkiv.Russia’s air defence forces destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight.There are increased strikes on energy infrastructure. Russian strikes have killed three people in a city in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, the city military administration chief said on Monday. The Russian army carried out two missile strikes on the centre of Balakliya during the night, Vitali Karabanov said in a post on Telegram. “According to preliminary information, three people were killed as a result of the night missile strike on the city of Balakliya,” he said. Ten were wounded, including children, he added. Nine people have been taken to hospital. “Unfortunately, calls about possible injuries continue to come in,” Karabanov added. READ | Russia launches ‘massive’ attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv, targeting energy and rail systems Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov earlier said that among those wounded were a 14-year-old girl, a 12-year-old child and a 61-year-old man. Russia has targeted Ukrainian territory almost daily with drones or missiles since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022. Seven people were killed after Russia struck apartment blocks across the capital Kyiv on Friday. As winter approaches, Moscow has also increased strikes on energy infrastructure. Kyiv has regularly targeted depots, oil refineries and other facilities in Russia. According to Reuters, Russia’s air defence forces destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight, RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing the Russian defence ministry’s daily data. Denis Pushilin, the top Russian-backed official in Donetsk, said an attack by Ukrainian strike drones on energy infrastructure had left roughly 500 000 people without power across several districts. Work was continuing to restore the electricity supply, Pushilin wrote on Telegram. The governor of the Ulyanovsk region east of Moscow said an attack by a Ukrainian drone on a substation there had been repelled. There were no casualties and the power supply was unaffected, Alexei Russkikh wrote on Telegram. On the front lines, the Russian army continues to advance, particularly in Ukraine’s southern region where it captured two more villages on Sunday. Al Jazeera reported that last week, Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers submitted their resignations amid a wide-reaching corruption probe, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said, shortly after President Volodymyr Zelensky called for their dismissals. Svyrydenko said in a post on social media on Wednesday that Justice Minister German Galushchenko and Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk had “submitted their resignations in accordance with the law”. The announcement comes as anticorruption authorities said this week that they had detained five people and identified two others still at large, suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to control procurement at nuclear agency Energoatom and other state enterprises.

Three people in Ukraine died as a result of Russian strikes in Kharkiv.Russia’s air defence forces destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight.There are increased strikes on energy infrastructure.

Russian strikes have killed three people in a city in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, the city military administration chief said on Monday.

The Russian army carried out two missile strikes on the centre of Balakliya during the night, Vitali Karabanov said in a post on Telegram.

“According to preliminary information, three people were killed as a result of the night missile strike on the city of Balakliya,” he said.

Ten were wounded, including children, he added.

Nine people have been taken to hospital.

“Unfortunately, calls about possible injuries continue to come in,” Karabanov added.

READ | Russia launches ‘massive’ attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv, targeting energy and rail systems

Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov earlier said that among those wounded were a 14-year-old girl, a 12-year-old child and a 61-year-old man.

Russia has targeted Ukrainian territory almost daily with drones or missiles since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022.

Seven people were killed after Russia struck apartment blocks across the capital Kyiv on Friday.

As winter approaches, Moscow has also increased strikes on energy infrastructure.

Kyiv has regularly targeted depots, oil refineries and other facilities in Russia.

According to Reuters, Russia’s air defence forces destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight, RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing the Russian defence ministry’s daily data.

Denis Pushilin, the top Russian-backed official in Donetsk, said an attack by Ukrainian strike drones on energy infrastructure had left roughly 500 000 people without power across several districts.

Work was continuing to restore the electricity supply, Pushilin wrote on Telegram.

The governor of the Ulyanovsk region east of Moscow said an attack by a Ukrainian drone on a substation there had been repelled.

There were no casualties and the power supply was unaffected, Alexei Russkikh wrote on Telegram.

On the front lines, the Russian army continues to advance, particularly in Ukraine’s southern region where it captured two more villages on Sunday.

Al Jazeera reported that last week, Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers submitted their resignations amid a wide-reaching corruption probe, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said, shortly after President Volodymyr Zelensky called for their dismissals.

Svyrydenko said in a post on social media on Wednesday that Justice Minister German Galushchenko and Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk had “submitted their resignations in accordance with the law”.

The announcement comes as anticorruption authorities said this week that they had detained five people and identified two others still at large, suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to control procurement at nuclear agency Energoatom and other state enterprises.