KYIV, Ukraine, March  22, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - 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's
Prosecutor General said.

Moscow launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Ukrainian energy
facilities 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 city
of Zaporizhzhia, close to the front lines.

Russia partially controls the wider Zaporizhzhia region, which it claims to
have annexed.

Photos on social media showed a fire raging on the station's dam in the
early hours.

A trolleybus driving across the dam's roadway had been hit in the missile
attack and its 62-year-old driver killed, Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov
said.

The hydro plant is about 60 kilometres (37 miles) upstream from the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which Russian forces seized at the start of
the war.

Ukraine's energy ministry said the situation at the hydro plant was "under
control" following the strikes.

"There is no threat of a dam breach. However, the facility was damaged," it
said in a statement on Friday morning.