KYIV, April 27 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr

Zelenskiy said a Russian attack on his country's energy sector

on Saturday had targeted gas facilities important for supply to

the European Union.

Russia continues to supply gas to the EU via Ukraine under a

transit deal with Russia's Gazprom that is set to

expire in December. Ukraine's energy minister said last month

that Kyiv had no plans to extend or replace the arrangement with

Moscow, which pays Ukraine to export its gas to the EU.

"The main target was the energy sector, various facilities

in the industry, both electricity and gas transit facilities, in

particular, those gas facilities that are crucial to ensuring

safe delivery to the European Union," Zelenskiy said in his

nightly video address.

Zelenskiy, who is campaigning for supplies of defensive

weapons systems from his international partners, said that

Ukrainian forces had "managed to shoot down some" of the 34

Russian missiles of various types.

He did not say which specific facilities were targeted, nor

whether missiles hit those targets.

Ukraine's state-run oil and gas firm Naftogaz said Russia

had attacked its facilities but that no-one was hurt and

supplies to Ukrainian consumers and clients were unaffected.

Maksym Kozytskyi, the governor of Lviv region, which borders

Poland, said his region had suffered strikes during an attack by

cruise missiles and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, though

Ukrainian forces shot down three missiles.

He said two critical energy infrastructure objects in Stryi

and Chervonohrad districts were damaged and caught fire, though

emergency services quickly extinguished the flames.

Zelenskiy repeated his previous plea for defensive missiles,

particularly Patriot systems, saying Ukraine needed at least

seven defensive systems.

"The trajectories of the missiles and the nature of the

strike were calculated by Russian terrorists in a way to make

the work of our air defence system as difficult as possible," he

said. "Each downed rocket today is a significant result."