Russia fired a series of missiles at Ukrainian cities in the second pre-dawn attack in three days.

Pavlohrad, a logistics hub near the central city of Dnipro, was attacked sooner than feared will A counteroffensive long-awaited from Ukraine.

The attack started a huge fire, destroyed dozens of homes and injured 34 people.

In Kherson, the attack went on one dead and three wounded.

“After this Russian assault, one person died and three others, including a child, were injured,” Oleksander Prokudin, head of the military administration, told Telegram, noting that the city has been bombed eight times in the past 24 hours. .​

Hours later, the air raid alarm rang across the country, with the capital kyiv among the targets.

Across the country, the Ukrainian military said it was shot down 15 of 18 cruise missiles who had been shot.

“The Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with their strategic aviation” which fired “18 cruise missiles”, but 15 were able to be destroyed by the Ukrainian army, according to the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valery Zalujny.

The most significant damage was in Pavlohrad, a city in Ukrainian-controlled territory 110 km from the front line. Pictures posted on social media showed a huge blaze.

“Nineteen multi-storey buildings, 25 houses, six schools and kindergartens, as well as five shops were damaged,” said Serhiy Lysak, a regional administration official.

This was stated by a resident, Olha Lytvynenko she was getting dressed to go out of his house when “the two doors were broken down by the wave of the explosion”.

“I ran out and saw the garage was destroyed. Everything was on fire, glass fragments everywhere. If we had been outside, we would have been killed,” he said.

Damage to infrastructure

Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said on Monday that Russian attacks on Sunday night caused significant damage damage to network infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions.

“In the afternoon of April 30 and in the night of May 1, the enemy launched another massive attack against Ukraine. No damages have been reported to power generation facilities. However, significant damages have been reported to distribution networks” , he points out in a note. Telegram statement including “Evropeiska Pravda”.

As a result, some consumers in the city of Dnipro and the region they ran out of electricityadd.

The energy supply situation in Kherson has also been complicated, with more than 11,000 subscribers in the city and another 7,100 in the region without electricity due to the bombing, he said.

According to the ministry, complete repair of the damage will take several days.

Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko stated that “the energy infrastructure it suffers the fire of the occupants every day in different regions of the country.

“However, our technicians try to restore electricity to the population as soon as possible, often putting their lives and health at risk,” he stressed.

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