Russian drone kills 3 Slovyansk Thermal Power Plant workers in Donbas
Russian forces struck a civilian vehicle carrying employees of the Slovyansk Thermal Power Plant with an FPV drone in Mykolaivka, Kramatorsk district, this morning, killing three workers and injuring one, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry and State Emergency Service reported.
"This is yet another reminder of how high the price of light and heat is in our homes. Our sincere condolences to all those who have lost loved ones," wrote the Ministry of Energy.
Emergency responders extinguished the fire in the vehicle and assisted the wounded person, who was handed over to paramedics.
Overnight into Tuesday, Russia carried out another combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in multiple regions, causing power outages in the Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts as well as heating disruptions in Odesa and Sumy.
Emergency restoration work began where security conditions allowed. Most regions are under hourly scheduled blackouts, with enterprises facing power limitation schedules and some areas under emergency cutoffs.
About the attack
Ukraine’s air defenses downed or suppressed 392 aerial targets — including 20 Kh-101 cruise missiles, four Iskander-K cruise missiles, one Kh-59/69 guided missile and 367 drones — out of 29 missiles and 396 drones launched.
Four ballistic missiles and 18 strike drones hit 13 locations, with debris from downed targets falling at eight sites.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack targeted 12 oblasts, injured nine people including children, damaged more than 10 residential buildings and railway infrastructure, and was “a deliberately calculated strike to inflict maximum damage on our energy sector.”