Russia reports 14 strikes on its energy facilities despite US-brokered deal
- 6 April, 12:21
The Russian Defence Ministry on Saturday reported that its energy facilities came under Ukrainian drone attacks 14 times over the past day.
“Since the morning of Friday, April 4, the Kyiv regime has increased the number of unilateral attacks using UAVs and artillery shells on the energy infrastructure of Russian regions,” the statement published on April 5 reads. The ministry revealed that Ukrainian troops attacked four energy facilities in the Bryansk region, five in the Belgorod region, one each in the Smolensk, Lipetsk, Voronezh and Kherson regions and in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
Ukrainian media on Saturday reported drone strikes on Russian military-industrial facilities deep into Russia. One of the facilities – the fiber-optic cables manufacturing plant in Russia’s Saransk city that provides Russia with materials for the construction of modern communications equipment, including for military purposes – was struck Friday night. Another factory producing explosive was struck in Chapayevsk town in Russia’s Samara region on April 5.
The massive barrage of attacks on Russia’s industrial facilities came amid Moscow’s deadly strike on Ukraine’s central Kriviy Rih city that is a hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The attack that was launched with ballistic missile with the use of warheads, was one of the deadliest since Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Nineteen people, including nine children, were killed as Russia hit a residential area in the city. The attacks came despite the US-brokered temporary pause in strikes on energy infrastructure.
