Kiev, 22 September 2024 (dpa/MIA) – Dozens of homes are without power in the Poltava region some 350 kilometres south-east of Kiev following overnight attacks by Russian drones on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, Poltava Governor Filip Pronin reported on Telegram.

Engineers were working to restore power, Pronin said. There had luckily been no injuries, he added.

Reports from Kiev said that Russian forces launched 80 Iranian-made Shahed drones and two missiles at Ukrainian territory overnight, of which 71 had been downed and a further six diverted from their path by electronic interference.

The Ukrainian military does not normally report on damage caused.

Moscow is increasingly targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure ahead of the winter months as it has done since the full-scale invasion in February 2022.

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