Electricity and water supplies have been knocked out in much of the rebel-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and a major oil refinery is on fire, Russian and Ukrainian media report.
Shelling has continued as Ukrainian forces try to advance against the pro-Russian rebels.
The shelling damaged an electricity substation in a district of Luhansk.
There is no sign of a ceasefire despite the crash of a Malaysian airliner in rebel-held territory on Thursday.
The jet with 298 people on board crashed between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in Donetsk region.
An oil refinery in Lisichansk, in Luhansk region, is ablaze, the Russian news agency RIA reports. News and pictures of the fire also came on Twitter on Friday, though the cause was not immediately clear.
Almost all of the city of Luhansk lacks water and electricity - the result of shells damaging an electricity substation in Kamennobrodsky district, the Russian news website Lenta.ru reports.
The Ukrainian news agency Unian, quoting a Luhansk city council statement, said the power cut had brought water pumping stations to a standstill.
Shooting is continuing in the area, preventing engineers reaching the electricity substation, Unian reports.
Several explosions were also heard overnight in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, as well as sustained shooting around the city's airport, Unian said.
Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in March, and has been accused of arming the rebels and even sending regular Russian troops to Donetsk and Luhansk - a claim denied by the Kremlin.
More than 1,000 civilians and combatants have been killed since mid-April, when Ukrainian security forces moved to regain control of the eastern regions, while tens of thousands of people have left the region.
Both sides possess and use heavy weapons such as multiple rocket launchers and tanks.
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