After several weeks of relative calm away from the frontline, Russia launched a new major attack on ten different areas last morning. Ukraineincluding the capital, Kiev, and two other major cities in the country Kharkov and OdessaAs reported by the Ukrainian authorities.
The attack, in which Russia used dozens of cruise missiles fired from the Black Sea, electrical infrastructures.
in the capital Left 15% of the population without electricityas described by the power company and also why Power outage in Odessain the south of Ukraine.
Some missiles also hit settlements. “There are burning cars in the courtyard of a residential building. Two people were injured.” Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klychko said in his Telegram account.
“The enemy has launched fifteen attacks on the city and the region,” Kharkiv Governor Oleg Cynegubov said on Telegram, adding that the missiles targeted “essential infrastructures”.
Serhiy Kovalenko, director of the electricity company Yasno, due to the attack, scheduled emergency outages electricity supply in a “preventive” way
periodic interruptions
Millions of Ukrainians suffered periodic power outages throughout the winter due to Russian bombardment.
Ukraine improved the level of protection of their core infrastructure thanks to Western anti-aircraft systems, which he bought and managed to completely restore the light source.
In this context, in the last 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced that they had repelled more than 110 Russian attacks across the country and attacked 13 enemy military groups.
Despite Russia’s bombing of different parts of Ukraine, “the main enemy efforts continue to focus on carrying out offensive actions on the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk fronts in the east of the country,” the General Staff said. Thursday on the Facebook account of the General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Attacks on civilian objects
According to the military report, “The Russians continue to violate the norms of International Humanitarian Law. attacks and artillery bombardments of civilian objects and homesand trying to destroy our country’s critical infrastructure.”
The Ukrainian military said only yesterday that Russian forces carried out “25 air strikes, 2 missile strikes and 32 multiple launch missile system attacks”.