Moscow, 18 November 2023 (dpa/MIA) – Energy infrastructure in the southern Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhya and Odessa came under heavy Russian drone attack in the early hours of Saturday, the Ukrainian military said.

The air force reported on its Telegram channel that of the 38 drones that were launched, 29 had been intercepted.

The attacks caused a fire in an administrative building in an energy complex in Odessa, with one person injured, the Ukrainian southern command said. The fire had been extinguished, it said.

In Zaporizhzhya, four out of eight drones had been intercepted, the military governor, Yuriy Malashko, said on Telegram. Some parts of the infrastructure had been hit and one fire had broken out, he said. There were no injuries.

The neighbouring Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, as well as Kiev and Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine also reported attacks.

The leadership in Kiev has said that it expects the Russian military to focus on the destruction of power, heating and water infrastructure through the cold months, in the way it did last winter.

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