The attacks struck the southeastern cities of Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said missiles, drones and artillery were deployed across four districts, destroying a business and warehouse complex and causing three fatalities and six injuries in Dnipro.
A separate “massive” strike hit the central Poltava region, targeting an industrial enterprise and a critical‑infrastructure facility, according to Governor Vitalii Diakivnych, further underscoring the breadth of the operation.
Ukraine’s air force reported that the barrage included an unspecified number of Oniks anti‑ship and ballistic missiles, four cruise missiles and 212 drones, illustrating the scale and diversity of the weaponry used in the coordinated assault.
The power outage in the northern Chernihiv region was caused by a Russian attack on an energy facility, leaving nearly 100,000 consumers without electricity, a regional electricity distribution company confirmed.
The strikes come as front‑line fighting has largely stalled more than four and a half years into the war, prompting both Moscow and Kyiv to increasingly target economic assets such as businesses, ports and logistics hubs in an effort to weaken each other’s war‑fighting capacity.