Russia strikes Ukraine industrial sites, killing three, officials say


Sept 22 (Reuters) - Russia hit ⁠industrial sites in southeastern and central Ukraine overnight, killing ⁠three, while an attack cut power to thousands in ‌the country's north, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.

Moscow had simultaneously hit industrial enterprises in the cities of Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad in the ​southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha ⁠said on Telegram.

Russia deployed ⁠missiles, drones and artillery at four districts of the region, killing ⁠three ‌people and injuring another six in Dnipro, where Hanzha said a business and warehouse premises were badly ⁠damaged.

With fighting on the front line largely stalled ​more than 4-1/2 ‌years into the war in Ukraine, Moscow and Kyiv ⁠increasingly have struck ​businesses, ports, logistics and other economic targets in recent months to try to damage the other's war effort.

The overnight Russian barrage ⁠on Ukraine included an unspecified number of ​Oniks anti-ship and ballistic missiles, as well as four cruise missiles and 212 drones, Ukraine's air force said.

Businesses have also been ⁠damaged in Pavlohrad and Kryvyi Rih, which is the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Hanzha said.

A Russian attack on an energy facility in a neighbouring region left nearly 100,000 consumers ​in the northern region of Chernihiv without ⁠power, a regional electricity distribution company said.

Moscow also carried out ​a "massive" attack on a central region ‌of Poltava, hitting an industrial enterprise ​and a critical infrastructure facility, Governor Vitalii Diakivnych said.

(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka in Gdansk; Editing by Kevin Buckland)

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