New one Russian attack wave destroyed 30% of power plants in eight days Ukraine and created a critical situation in the country, which Kiev saw as a brutal Kremlin strategy to “freeze” Ukrainians before winter.
Once, Kyiv ends the severing of diplomatic relations Iranian For the supply of kamikaze drones to Russia.
“We have a critical situation across the country because one region is dependent on another. The whole country should be prepared for power cuts Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy chief of the presidential general staff, summed up both electricity supply and water and heating” and “energy saving”.
A third of the plants were destroyed
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a figure on the destruction of the country’s electricity grid. “Since October 10, 30% of Ukraine’s power plants have been destroyed, causing massive power outages across the country,” he said.
Rusia attacked civil and electrical infrastructures again in the east, center and south this Tuesday Ukrainian. He did this in kyiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Zhitomir, Kharkov, Krivói Rog, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia. At least six people died.
“During the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to attack Ukraine’s military command and power systems, as well as foreign-made ammunition and weapons stockpiles, using long-range high-precision weapons from the air and from the sea.” recognized the Russian Ministry of Defense.
DTEK Energo company reported that two of its thermal power plants were also attacked by Russian missiles.
Russia fired three missiles at two key facilities in the Ukrainian capitalone of them is the power supply on the left bank of the Dnieper River in the capital.
several dead
According to the mayor Vitaliy Klitschkó, ​​three people were killed in the bombing, all employees of one of the infrastructures were attacked.
About 83,000 families were temporarily without electricity.
Water supply was also limited in many homes.
According to the mayor Roman Padun, the Kurajovo thermal power plant in Donetsk was also targeted by missiles.
Also a Energy infrastructure bombed, electricity and water cuts in DniproAs in Zhitomir, where 11 towns were left without electricity.
Russia also launched eight missiles from the Belgorod border area to two Kharkov districts. There were also explosions at Krivoy Rog. At dawn, S-300 missiles also hit a building in Mykolaiv, a bombardment that killed one person.
The Attorney General’s Office also published a report. Missile attack on energy facilities in Vinnytsa.
Hours after the last bombardment of Sumy, Russian forces fired 14 more missiles at this border area with Russia. According to Tymoshenko, they killed two people.
Between 7-18 October, Russia carried out about 190 major attacks on 380 energy and civilian targets in 16 regions of Ukraine. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service spokesman Oleksandr Khorunzhy said on Tuesday.
During this period, more than 70 Ukrainians died and 240 were injured. In addition, nearly 4,000 towns in 11 regions suffered power outages.
“Terrorist state will not change anything with such actions (on the battlefield). Zelensky will only confirm his destructive and murderous nature for which he will undoubtedly be held accountable,” Zelensky said on his Telegram channel.
Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak said Russia was continuing “naive attempts to bend and intimidate us”. “They think they will achieve the goal of freezing the Ukrainians, leaving us without light and heat,” he wrote.
Punishment to Iran and request for help from Israel
This Tuesday Russia used more missiles than kamikaze drones.
Ukrainian Air Force Command spokesman Yuriy Ignat said today that Kiev has managed to shoot down 85% of Iranian suicide drones “Shahed-136” launched by Russia.
The head of the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, in an interview with the “Obozrevatel” media, said that Russia bought the first batch of 1,750 Iranian drones, and then new acquisitions took place.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a statement today that Zelenskiy offered to cut diplomatic relations with Iran, “taking into account the numerous destructions caused by Iranian drones to Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, the death and suffering they inflicted on our people.”
He also announced that Kiev would send an official letter asking Israel to “urgently supply anti-aircraft defense systems” and begin cooperation on “the purchase of relevant technologies for Ukraine.”
Source: Informacion
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