Russia Attacks Ukraine with Missiles: Energy Infrastructure Hit and Casualties

Ekaterina Girnyk, Larisa Kozovaya, Kateryna Chornovol07:42, 07.03.25

Arrivals are reported in Kharkiv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Poltava regions.

Russian occupation forces attacked Ukraine with Kalibr missiles from the Black Sea and also launched bombers, the Ukrainian Air Force reported .

Updated 05/09.  The enemy also attacked the Odessa region with attack drones, preliminarily of the “Shahed-136” type. Energy and civil infrastructure facilities were hit – at least 10 private houses in the suburbs of Odessa were damaged and destroyed. Due to the attack, more than two and a half thousand local residents were left without electricity. In addition, on March 7, as a result of a missile attack at night, 16 private houses in the Podolsk district of the Odessa region were damaged.

Updated 8.10. In Poltava region, in the Mirgorod district, debris from an enemy target fell on a private residential building. As reported by the Poltava OVA , 2 people were injured, including a child.

Two private residential buildings and a domestic gas pipeline were also damaged.

Updated 7.50 . The enemy also hit infrastructure facilities in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. According to the OVA, there were no casualties or damage.

The mayor of Kharkiv reports that in addition to the critical infrastructure building and the residential building, other objects were damaged in the city. 10 garages and 5 cars are burning. A total of six people were rescued.

Updated 7.30. Five people are known to have been injured in Kharkiv.

The head of the Ternopil OVA also reported  on arrivals at a critical industrial facility. He warned that there could be restrictions on gas supply.

Updated 7.00. In Kharkiv, a strike was made on a civilian infrastructure facility, reported Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov . A woman was pulled out from under the rubble of the building. There is a fire at the site of the strike. A nearby apartment building was also damaged.

There are currently four known victims.

Updated 6.22. In Poland, the air force was raised in connection with the air attack on Ukraine.

“In connection with the intensive activity of the long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, which strikes targets located, in particular, in the west of Ukraine, Polish and allied aviation began to operate in our airspace. Duty pairs of fighters were raised, ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems reached the highest state of readiness,” the statement said.

Updated 6.14.  Missiles from the south of Vinnytsia region are heading towards the south of Khmelnytsky region.

Updated 6.05. Rockets in the south of Vinnytsia region are moving in a westerly direction, in the east – in a southwesterly direction.

Updated 5.58. Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine continues. The Ukrainian Air Force reports the takeoff of a MiG-31K. Monitoring channels report more than a dozen missiles in Ukrainian airspace, and they are constantly changing course.

Updated 04:36: As of now, the threat of the enemy using attack UAVs in the regions remains, the Air Force says.

Updated 04:34: Air defense is operating in Ivano-Frankivsk region, said Ivano-Frankivsk mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv.

Updated 04:28: A missile from Chernivtsi region continues to move in the direction of Ivano-Frankivsk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces report.

It later became known that the missile continued to move through Ivano-Frankivsk region, in the direction of the village of Bogorodchany.

Updated 04:21: According to the military, a group of missiles from the Khmelnytsky region is flying in the direction of the Ternopil region, and another group is flying in the direction of the Chernivtsi region.

Residents of Chernivtsi and Ternopil are urged to take shelter.

Updated 04:15: Enemy missiles are entering the airspace of the Khmelnytsky region (vector – Dunaivtsi), the Air Force informs.

Updated 04:06: Missiles in the south of Vinnytsia region, heading north/northwest. Russians are also attacking the east of Ukraine with ballistics.

Updated 04:00: Groups of missiles are recorded from Odessa region on a northern course, as well as in the northwest of Poltava region, heading northeast.

Updated 03:59: Groups of missiles from Cherkasy region continue to move to Poltava region. Air raid sirens are spreading across Ukraine.

Updated 03:56: Missiles are recorded in the Kharkiv region, heading for the Poltava region. Ballistics are also reported heading for Mirgorod (Poltava region).

Updated 03:51: A group of missiles in the east of Kirovohrad region continues to move north, the Air Force says. Residents of Cherkasy are asked to take shelter.

Updated 03:47: Residents of Kremenchuk are asked to take shelter.

At the same time, missiles from the Odessa and Nikolaev regions continue to move north.

Updated 03:45:  Groups of missiles in the south of Kirovohrad region continue to move in a north-easterly direction (vector – Kremenchuk). Missile in the south of Mykolaiv region, course – north.

Meanwhile, the media reports explosions in the Odessa region.

Updated 03:43: The Air Force calls on residents of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Belgorod-Dnistrovsky to take shelter.

Updated 03:40:  Missiles in the north of Mykolaiv region continue to move along a northern and northwestern course.

Updated 03:37: The first missiles fired by the enemy from the Black Sea are being recorded in the Kherson region, as well as in the water area – towards Odessa, the Air Force reports.

It should be noted that the Russians are also attacking Ukraine with “Shahed” type attack drones. Launches of air-launched missiles and ballistics were recorded during the night.

Russian attacks on Ukraine

On the evening of March 5, 2025, Russian terrorists attacked a hotel in Krivoy Rog . Among those there were foreign volunteers. As a result of the attack, 5 people were killed and dozens were injured.

One of the eyewitnesses to the incident, a humanitarian worker from Texas, Mark Edwards, says that the hotel was hit when guests were gathered for dinner. People did not have time to leave the table before the rocket destroyed the building. Guests climbed out through broken windows.

“This was not an accident, this was not an unauthorized missile, this was a direct hit to kill civilians. This is the message that Russia wants to send to the world,” he said.

(C)UNIAN 2025

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