A Russian missile attack on Kyiv destroyed a power facility and damaged the power grid on Friday, the DTEK energy company said.
Ukraine's biggest private energy firm announced that power had been successfully restored to most of the buildings affected by the attack with backup sources, leaving some 10 private residences and one business without power, the Reuters News Agency reported.
Also on Friday, the Russian forces carried out an attack on the city of Kharkiv, killing three people and wounding at least 23 others, including two children, regional police said early Friday, warning residents could still be trapped under the rubble. The strike came after the United States authorized Kyiv to use American weapons to hit targets inside Russia in defense of the region.
US President Joe Biden gave the final sign-off in recent days, but the decision was kept secret for operational reasons and only became effective on Thursday, according to CNN.
The White House has made it clear to Kyiv that the permission for cross-border attacks was "limited to targets just over the border that were being used to launch offensives."
Ukraine's Air Force also said that Russia attacked overnight with five anti-aircraft guided missiles and that Ukraine's forces also downed attack drones over the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
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SOURCE: CNN, Reuterts