In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a DTEK brigade vehicle became a target of an enemy drone attack. The incident occurred while the company’s employees were carrying out a routine task of inspecting power lines in a frontline settlement.
This is reported by Finway
Details of the Attack on Energy Workers
According to the company, Russian military forces used two FPV drones that struck the energy workers’ vehicle. As a result of the strike, the vehicle was completely burned, but the employees managed to escape and avoid injuries.
“At that moment, two Russian FPV drones hit their vehicle – it was completely destroyed. Our colleagues managed to save themselves, and no one was injured,” the press service stated.
Despite the constant danger, DTEK employees continue their work to provide the population with electricity and heating. The company emphasizes that its energy facilities and field teams regularly face Russian attacks in various regions of the country.
Systematic Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure
Russia consistently employs a variety of weaponry, including strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems to shell Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure facilities. Ukrainian authorities and international organizations regard these actions as war crimes and emphasize that the strikes are deliberate.
Systematic shelling of energy facilities, healthcare institutions, and other vital infrastructure poses a threat to millions of Ukrainians, depriving them of electricity, heating, water, communication, and medical assistance. Experts and human rights defenders classify these actions as signs of genocide, which includes the public declaration of intentions to destroy Ukrainians.
It is worth noting that the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948, clearly defines such actions as an international crime. The participants of the Convention, currently 149 countries, are obligated to prevent genocide and punish its commission, regardless of whether it occurs in wartime or peacetime.
The leadership of Russia regularly denies the facts of targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure and casualties among the civilian population, despite numerous evidence of the destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy facilities, and water supply systems on the territory of Ukraine.