KYIV, April 1 (Reuters) – Russia launched a rare daytime drone attack on Ukraine on Wednesday, killing four people in the central Cherkasy region and damaging energy infrastructure and industrial facilities in the west of the country, Ukrainian officials said.
Ihor Taburets, the governor of the Cherkasy region, said the four were killed while they were outside during an air alert. He said the attack was still underway, and urged residents to take shelter.
Officials in the western regions of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, and Zakarpattia also reported drone attacks. The Ukrainian air force said waves of drones were heading to various regions of Ukraine.
Zakarpattia governor Myroslav Biletskyi said Russian drones hit critical infrastructure facilities in the Khust and Uzhhorod districts near the border with Slovakia and Hungary.
Electricity supplies were cut off to about 11,000 customers in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in the west, regional officials said.
With the war in its fifth year, both Russia and Ukraine have stepped up their drone attacks. Such attacks usually take place overnight, when drones are harder to intercept.
(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa, Olena Harmash, Editing by Louise Heavens and Ros Russell)
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