
Nighttime drone and artillery attacks hit electricity and railway networks in several Ukrainian regions
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Russian night raids hit energy and railway infrastructure in Ukraine.
Following several nighttime Russian raids targeting energy infrastructure, blackouts were reported in various parts of Ukraine.
Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said, as reported by the Guardian, that Russia had attacked three districts in the region "more than 10 times" with artillery and drones.
Residents of Izyum, south-east of Kharkiv were left without electricity following a Russian attack that damaged energy distribution networks and in the Zhytomyr region the governor reports raids on railway and energy infrastructure.

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