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Russian strikes badly damage Ukraine's largest hydro plant
Eight Russian missiles hit Ukraine's largest hydroelectric power plant in the early hours of Friday,causing "significant damage" to the facility, the office of Ukraine'sProsecutor General said.
Moscow launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Ukrainian energyfacilities overnight, one of the largest aerial attacks of the two-year war.
The Dnipro Hydroelectric Station "was hit eight times," said Yury Belousov,head of the Prosecutor General's war crimes department on Ukrainian TV.
"The facility is really out of commission. The damage is very significant,"he added.
The power station straddles the vast Dnipro river in the southeastern cityof Zaporizhzhia, close to the front lines, reports BSS.
Russia partially controls the wider Zaporizhzhia region, which it claims tohave annexed.
Photos on social media showed a fire raging on the station's dam in theearly hours.
A trolleybus driving across the dam's roadway had been hit in the missileattack and its 62-year-old driver killed, Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorovsaid.
The hydro plant is about 60 kilometres (37 miles) upstream from theZaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which Russian forces seized at the start ofthe war.
Ukraine's energy ministry said the situation at the hydro plant was "undercontrol" following the strikes.
"There is no threat of a dam breach. However, the facility was damaged," itsaid in a statement on Friday morning.