Russia strikes Ukraine industrial sites, killing three, officials say — SkimNews
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- Russia struck industrial sites across southeastern and central Ukraine overnight on September 22, killing three people and injuring six in Dnipro, where regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said business and warehouse premises were badly damaged.
- Ukraine's air force reported the barrage included an unspecified number of Oniks anti-ship and ballistic missiles, four cruise missiles, and 212 drones, deployed against four districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
- Pavlohrad and Kryvyi Rih — the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy — also saw businesses damaged in the strikes, Hanzha said.
- A Russian attack on an energy facility in Chernihiv left nearly 100,000 consumers in northern Ukraine without power, according to a regional electricity distribution company.
- Poltava governor Vitalii Diakivnych reported a "massive" attack on the central Ukrainian region that hit an industrial enterprise and a critical infrastructure facility.
- With front-line fighting largely stalled more than 4-1/2 years into the war, Moscow and Kyiv have increasingly targeted businesses, ports, logistics, and other economic sites to damage each other's war effort.
Why it matters: The strikes hit economic infrastructure across at least four Ukrainian regions — including President Zelenskiy's hometown of Kryvyi Rih and Poltava's industrial base — and knocked out power for nearly 100,000 consumers in Chernihiv. With the front line frozen after more than 4-1/2 years of fighting, the systematic targeting of businesses and energy facilities reflects how the war's economic toll has become as central as the military stalemate itself.
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