Russia launched more than 150 missiles and drones overnight, Volodymyr Zelenskyi and the Ukrainian Air Force announced, and the head of the Ukrainian state energy company said it was the biggest blow to energy infrastructure in the entire war.

On Friday morning, the State Hydroelectric Company of Ukraine reported that Ukraine’s largest DniproHPP dam in the Zaporizhzhia region was damaged, but there is no risk of a breach.

“Now the station is on fire. Due to the consequences of numerous airstrikes, emergency services and energy workers are working on the spot,” the state company Ukrhydroenergo, which manages the dam network of Ukraine, reported.

This is the largest attack on energy infrastructure in the entire war

According to local officials, energy infrastructures in several regions were targeted. The Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko said that this is the biggest attack on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine in recent times.

“The goal is not only to cause damage, but to try again, like last year, to cause a large-scale accident in the country’s power system,” he wrote on Facebook.

A local government official reported that in the west of Khmelnytskyi region, one person was killed and several others were injured as a result of a Russian attack that damaged the main infrastructure, reports Public Ukrainian Television.

The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, said that traffic lights are not working in the second largest city of Ukraine due to strikes on electrical installations.

In the central part of Ukraine, the mayor of Kryvyi Rih, Oleksandr Vilkul, said that there were explosions in the city, but did not give details. In another central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, according to mayor Serhii Borzov, “a necessary infrastructure object” was damaged.

The country’s largest private energy company DTEK also said that Russia carried out a massive attack on energy facilities and hit some of the company’s thermal plants.

As Suspilne reports, the company has warned of a power outage in the southeast of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Overnight, Russia attacked with 150 missiles and drones

Russia launched more than 60 Shahed drones and nearly 90 missiles in a massive attack on Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the Telegram messaging app.

“The world sees the targets of Russian terrorists as clearly as possible: power plants and power lines, a hydroelectric dam, ordinary residential buildings, even a trolleybus,” he wrote.

The Air Force of Ukraine reported that the Russian enemy launched a combined airstrike of 63 Shahed drones and 88 missiles of various types against critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. According to a Telegram message, Ukrainian troops destroyed 92 air targets: 55 drones and 37 missiles.

At least two people were killed and 14 injured as a result of an overnight Russian airstrike, Ukraine’s interior minister said in Kyiv on Friday. Three more are considered missing, Ihor Klymenko reported in Telegram.

Energoatom: “extremely dangerous” situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe seized by Russian forces, is in an “extremely dangerous” situation after the attack, Energoatom announced, Kyiv Independent reports.

The external power line connecting the station to Ukraine’s power system was disconnected after the strikes, the Ukrainian state utility company said. At the moment, there is only one connection to the Ukrainian electricity grid.

“The situation is extremely dangerous and threatens to create an emergency situation. In the event of disconnection of the last connection to the domestic power grid, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant will experience another blackout,” said Petro Kotin, head of NAEC “Energoatom”.