Russias military launched a large-scale missile attack on Ukraines energy infrastructure, Ukrainian authorities said early Friday.The attack significantly damaged numerous Ukrainian power plants and knocked out electrical power to thousands of individuals, the DTEK energy company stated.
As Ukrainians wake to the coldest day of the winter so far, the enemy tries to break our spirit with this cynical terrorist attack, DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko said.Russia fired 94 rockets in the barrage, consisting of cruise and ballistic rockets, and almost 200 drones, according to Ukraines flying force.
It declared to have shot down 81 of the missiles.President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack showed Moscow had no interest in peace and required more Western air defense systems to protect Ukraines skies and harsher sanctions on Moscow.Ukraines Energy Minister German Galushchenko said engineers were taking all the necessary steps to lessen the effects after surges were reported in a couple of regions.An air raid alert was provided at 7:00 am, with social networks channels that keep track of threats reporting cruise and hypersonic Kinzhal missiles over several regions of Ukraine.Neighboring Poland said it positioned its army on high readiness due to the hazard of an attack.Russia has actually conducted at least 11 massive strikes on Ukraines energy infrastructure considering that the start of the year, Kyiv says.To handle the power deficit, Ukraines energy operator has been carrying out hours-long outages, and it revealed increased constraints on Friday.Moscow has previously acknowledged striking Ukraines energy websites however says they are genuine targets as they support the Ukrainian defense industry business.
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