Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said an attack on December 7 on the town of Kurakhovo in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine killed 10 people, while the chief of the national power-grid operator, Ukrenerho, said Russian forces have fired more than 1,000 rockets and missiles at the country's energy infrastructure since the start of the war.
Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address that the attack on Kurakhovo was “very brutal, absolutely calculated” and killed “peaceful people, ordinary people" at a market, a grain elevator, a gas station, a bus stop, and in a residential building.
“The list of the dead so far includes 10 people, many wounded,” he said.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine's presidential administration, said that the Russian troops shelled Kurakhovo from multiple rocket launchers. The town has been among the hot spots in fighting in the Donbas region.
Tymoshenko posted video footage of buildings in flames on Telegram.
"Terrorists are inhuman," Tymoshenko wrote. "And they will be held to account for it."
Tymoshenko also said Russian troops struck the settlement of Pechenehy in the Kharkiv region.
Air defense forces shot down two Russian missiles, he said, quoting Oleksandr Husarov, the leader of the village. He reported that one of the downed rockets fell on the outskirts of the village; the other hit almost in the center. There were no casualties.
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In the Kharkiv region, the regional center in particular, is regularly attacked by Russian troops.
In the Zaporizhzhya region, the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Starukh, said that all victims of the latest Russian attacks on the region were in serious condition.
This includes a 15-year-old girl and her father and a woman injured during shelling in Orichov.
Speaking on a live RFE/RL program, he said shelling a few nights before injured a little girl in Novosofiyivka. Her parents are in serious condition and her grandfather and grandmother died, he said, pledging to get help to everyone who needs it.
The battlefield claims could not be independently verified.
Ukrenerho chief Volodymyr Kudrytskiy told a meeting arranged by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) that, despite more than 1,000 rockets and missiles being fired at Ukraine's power grid, it is still working.
Kudrytskiy also said that his officials were scouring the world for the complex equipment needed for repairs, according to the Interfax Ukraine news agency.
Eight recent waves of Russian air strikes on critical infrastructure have seriously damaged the grid and led to emergency and planned outages across the country.
"These attacks represent the biggest blow to a power grid that humanity has ever seen," Kudrytskiy was quoted as saying. But the system is still working, he said.
Russian forces attacked several Ukrainian regions with kamikaze drones and heavy artillery on December 6, officials said early on December 7.
In Kherson, Russian troops shelled the region 51 times, killing two people, Yaroslav Yanushevych, the head of the regional military administration, said on December 7.
Dnipropetrovsk Governor Valentyn Reznichenko said all Russian drones were destroyed by Ukrainian forces in the overnight attack.
"Military men from the air command East did a great job. We shot down all eight enemy drones that the enemy directed at the area,"Reznichenko wrote on Telegram.
He said Russian shelling targeted the Nikopol district and city, causing damage to gas pipelines, houses, and farm buildings, but no people were wounded.
"Nikopol suffered the most. Up to a dozen private houses, farm buildings and gas pipelines were damaged in the city. Several shops, office buildings, and a college were destroyed by Russian shells," he said.
