Ukrainian drones hit a power plant near Moscow
Russia also attacked energy infrastructure in Odesa and Dnipro and claims to have taken three small towns in Donbas
The Shatura power plant, 100 kilometers east of Moscow, was attacked by Ukrainian drones, regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said Sunday. For their part, emergency services reported that three electrical transformers, each 65 square meters in area, caught fire. According to the governor of the region surrounding the Russian capital, although the power supply was not interrupted, authorities saw the need to quickly connect it to emergency lines and, to maintain the heating supply, they also had to deploy mobile boiler units. No deaths or injuries were reported. Other attacks on both sides of the border: The regional governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, admitted that numerous homes in his oblast, the one most affected by Ukrainian attacks, have been destroyed. “I remind you that more than 50,000 homes were destroyed or damaged. More than 43,000 have already been restored,” Gladkov stated at a press conference quoted by TASS. However, the governor expressed doubts about the return of all the residents who were forced to flee due to the constant Ukrainian attacks on the region, the hardest hit in Russia. Russia also attacked Ukraine's energy system with drones in the southern Odesa region and the city of Dnipro, in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, where 15 people were injured, including an 11-year-old girl, according to regional authorities and emergency services. In Dnipro, a Russian suicide drone crashed near a nine-story residential building, where the terraces of three apartments caught fire and 15 people were injured, according to acting governor Vladislav Gaivanenko. Russia claims to have captured three towns in eastern Ukraine. The Russian army today claimed to have captured three more towns in eastern Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the capture of Petrivske, in the Donetsk region, and of Tikhe and Otradne, in the Dnipropetrovsk region (east-central),This coincided with meetings in Switzerland between high-ranking US, European, and Ukrainian officials regarding Donald Trump's plan to end the conflict. The Ukrainian army asserted, however, that it is maintaining its positions in the center of the city of Pokrovsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, a key objective for Russian forces seeking to expand their control over the province, and is preventing Kremlin troops from establishing a foothold there.

