Moscow has stepped up daily drone and missile strikes in recent months, aiming at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and numerous civilian locations as winter approaches
Russian aerial attacks on Monday left five people dead and destroyed a kindergarten in eastern Ukraine, according to authorities.
Moscow has stepped up daily drone and missile strikes in recent months, aiming at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and numerous civilian locations as winter approaches.
In a separate strike on a residential area of Balakliya, a front‑line city in Kharkiv’s northeast, three people were killed and 13 wounded, including four children, Ukraine’s emergency service reported. First Lady Olena Zelenska condemned the attack.
“The attacker destroyed several apartment buildings and a kindergarten.
This inhumane attack is unjustifiable,” she wrote on social media. Photos released by the local administration showed a partially damaged Soviet‑era apartment block with all its windows blown out.
A subsequent Russian strike killed two more civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the regional governor said.
A Turkish‑flagged gas cargo ship caught fire after Russian drones struck the city of Izmail in Odesa region on the Black Sea, Ukraine’s port authority reported.
The incident occurred a day after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a gas‑import agreement with Greece, using the Trans‑Balkan pipeline that passes through Odesa.
In October, Moscow carried out its largest bombing campaign on Ukrainian gas infrastructure since the 2022 invasion, cutting 60 percent of the country’s main heating‑fuel production.
Kyiv has repeatedly hit Russian fuel depots, oil refineries and other energy sites, describing the strikes as retaliation for Russia’s attacks.
Meanwhile, the Moscow‑backed governor of occupied Donetsk region said about 500,000 customers experienced a temporary power outage early Monday following a Ukrainian attack.
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