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Russia launched another series of strikes on Ukrainian territory, causing power outages in five regions of the country. Gas production facilities in the Kharkiv region were also hit, while drones attacked a residential building and a shopping center in Sumy.
According to the Ukrainian energy company Ukrenergo, by the morning of July 21, emergency power outages had occurred in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The company reported that power engineers have already begun emergency restoration work where safety conditions permit and are doing everything possible to restore power to consumers as quickly as possible.
In addition, four settlements in the Poltava and Mykolaiv regions were completely or partially without electricity due to adverse weather conditions—thunderstorms and strong gusts of wind.
Naftogaz reported that Russian troops have been targeting its gas production facilities in the Kharkiv region for the past three days. According to the company, on July 19, a strike on one of the production facilities sparked a fire that was quickly extinguished by rescuers. Damage to equipment forced the facility to halt gas production, resulting in a loss of some production volumes.
The very next day, Russian forces struck another Naftogaz facility. The company reported extensive damage and stated that experts were continuing to assess the extent of the damage.
On the evening of July 20, a Russian drone struck a nine-story residential building in Sumy. According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, six people were injured, including four children.
On the night of July 21, a strike drone also attacked the Epicenter construction hypermarket, where a major fire broke out. The State Emergency Service reported that Russian troops carried out repeated strikes while extinguishing the fire. One of the strikes destroyed a rescue vehicle, and another was damaged.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russian forces used 58 drones on the night of July 21. Ukrainian military officials claimed that 46 of them were shot down, and that eight strike drones were recorded in seven different locations.
In Kherson, according to the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, a 45-year-old regional administration employee was killed as a result of a Russian drone strike.
Another attack occurred in the village of Rai-Elenovka in the Kharkiv region. According to Oleg Sinegubov, head of the regional military administration, a 66-year-old woman was killed in a Russian drone strike.
