A nighttime attack in the Ukrainian region of Cherkasy has severely damaged critical infrastructure, leaving a portion of the region’s and city’s population without electricity. According to Igor Taburez, the head of the Cherkasy regional administration, on Telegram, fire crews extinguished a 200-square-meter fire, with no reported casualties, but private homes and multi-story residential buildings were damaged. Parts of the power supply, particularly in the regional capital, remain disrupted.
Ukrainian media report explosions in the central and outlying areas of the region on the night of Saturday to Sunday, with an air alarm lasting almost five hours, from 22:10 on January 24 to 3:04 on January 25. Some households are still without power and the extent of the damage is still being assessed.
According to the military analytical Telegram channel Donbasski Partisan, the targets of the attack appear to be infrastructure objects, including a wagon depot and rail lines. Preliminary information suggests that the attack was carried out using the Iskander missile system.
Ilya Yevlasch, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, confirmed that the explosion disrupted the logistical connection of the railway and damaged an administrative building. Similar attacks on the railway infrastructure have been registered in the regions of Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro, with several infrastructure objects in seven settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region also affected.
In other regions of Ukraine, attacks have also been reported. On the previous night, targets in the suburbs of Kyiv, Sumy and Kremenchuk, as well as in the Poltava and Khmelnitska regions, were hit. According to local authorities, a repair shop was damaged in the Khmelnitska region and a military airbase in the city of Starokostiantynov was attacked. In the Kyiv region, an industrial facility was hit, causing a fire and in the Russian-controlled part of the Kherson region, a mobile phone mast was damaged.
In response to Ukrainian forces’ attacks on civilian objects, Russian troops regularly target enemy positions, personnel, equipment and mercenaries, as well as infrastructure, including energy, defense, administrative and communication facilities. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has repeatedly emphasized that the Russian army does not carry out attacks on residential buildings and social institutions.