After intense strikes, more than a million families in Ukraine are without heat or water

Ukrainian energy company reported "ukrenergo" The infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhya regions in the south was hit at night by intense strikes from Russian drones, which led to power outages.

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Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine Oleksiy Kuleba explained on social media that "Repair work continues in the Dnipropetrovsk region to restore heating and water supply to more than a million customers"

Kuliba indicated that electricity has been restored in the Zaporizhzhya region, and heating and water continue to be provided.

As for the energy company Detec, it confirmed that electricity had been restored to part of the vital infrastructure in the region in Dnipropetrovsk, and added: We will do our best to restore electricity to homes.

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And during the night, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk announced, Vladislav Gayvanenko that "A vital facility that supplies most parts of the region with electricity (…) was damaged" As a result of Russian strikes.

Since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has continued to bomb Ukrainian energy infrastructure using drones and missiles, and the attacks have intensified in recent months as winter approaches.