Russian strikes hit gas pipeline, cut electricity in Ukraine, officials say

London – Russian strikes wounded five people, damaged homes and a gas pipeline in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson overnight Wednesday, said regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin.

Prokudin added that a Russian strike drone was shot down over the Kherson region – most of which is occupied by Russian forces, with the region halved by the front line marked with the Dnieper River – and one woman was killed by a drone attack on Thursday morning.

Ivan Fedorov, the governor of the southern Zaporizhzhia region – which is also partially possessed by Russia – said that local front -line communities were left without electricity due to fire overnight. More than 3,300 customers were affected, Fedorov said in a post to Telegram.

In the northwestern Kharkiv region, close to the front line, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said that 11 people were injured in a “massive” drone attack. Several homes and industrial places were damaged, he said.

In the central city of DNIPRO, the local military administration reported several fires caused by drone impacts. “Companies, educational and cultural institutions, more than a dozen high -rise buildings were damaged in the city,” it said on Telegram. “More than 60 cars were damaged, more more were destroyed. Two trucks were also hit.”

Overall, Ukraine’s Air Force reported a missile and 86 drones launched in the country overnight. The force said on Telegram that 42 drones were shot down and 26 lost during flight without causing damage. Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Chernihiv regions were affected, it says.

The Ministry of Russia, meanwhile, said its forces shot a Ukrainian drone down the Western Bryan region.

Cross -border strikes have continued despite progress with a US -broken partial ceasefire intended to freeze military action in the Black Sea and pause long -range attacks on energy infrastructure facilities in both countries.

After conversations in Saudi Arabia this week, the White House said the parties agreed to “develop measures to implement the agreement to ban strikes against energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine.”

The Kremlin said its moratorium began on March 18, although Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s communications adviser said Russia hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure eight times since that date.

Zelenskyy said Wednesday that there had been no attack on energy infrastructure in both country since Tuesday, when Ukraine and Russia agreed to set strikes after the latest round of negotiations in Riyadh.

The White House framed the partial ceasefire as a victory in its wider push for peace in Ukraine. But concerns remain in Kiev that President Donald Trump’s administration is too adapted to Moscow’s tale of the conflict.

This week, Trump Middle East re -emerged Steve Witkoff – which has been central to conversations with both Moscow and Kyiv – misleading Russian voice points, for example suggesting that Russia’s claimed annexation of five Ukrainian territories – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea – had support for the local population.

During a press conference with journalists in Paris on Wednesday, Zelenskyy said Witkoff “often quotes the Kremlin narrative.”

“I think this does not come close to peace, I think this will unfortunately weaken the US pressure on the Russian Federation,” he added. “I’ve talked to President Trump more than once – we try to share real and truthful information as Witkoff’s statements disturb us a lot as we fight for Putin and we don’t want him to receive support.”

“I’ve always told President Trump that we want the United States to be on our side,” Zelenskyy said. “And even though the United States has chosen to be in the middle, they have to stay in the middle and not get closer to the Kremlin.”

ABC News’ Anna Sergeeva, Nataliia Popova, Oleksiy Pshemyskiy, Ellie Kaufman and Will Gretsky contributed to this report.