Russian missile launches and drone strikes at Russian power facilities on Wednesday morning, intensifying a months-long bombing campaign in a vulnerable time for Ukraine.
The Russian bombardment came only one day after Kyiv announced that it had launched its largest aerial assault of the war against Russian army plants and energy centers hundreds of kilometers away from the front line.
In the storm, which included 74 attack drones, 43 sail and ballistic missiles, and 74 attack drones, according to the Ukrainian air force.
When lights and plaster started to fall on Oleksandra Komuna, an old resident of Sknyliv in eastern Ukraine, she was at household during the attack.
” Everything was blown out, including the windows and doors.” The vehicle was damaged, and the roof was damaged. There were splits outside. It’s like a crisis”, she told AFP.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president, quickly condemned the strikes and demanded more effective surveillance assistance from allies worldwide.
” Another large Russian invasion. It is the middle of winter, and the goal for the Russians remains the same: our energy business”, he wrote on social advertising.
In a normal briefing, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that its causes had attacked energy sources that” support the Ukrainian military-industrial complex” with “high precision” attacks.
Additionally, it asserted that all the intended target had been struck.
But, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal claimed the Russian invasion had “failed” while the Russian air force claimed to have shot down 30 of the weapons and 47 robots.
Poland spins jet
Days after the storm, Zelenskyy met Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, where the two held a media event.
” The priorities were quite close to our Russian frontier with Poland”, Zelenskyy said of the over attacks, urging closer assistance.
Tusk said Poland had help” rate up” Ukraine’s entry to the European Union, while Zelenskyy said participation could help avert potential Russian aggression.
Poland announced on social media that it had earlier flogged fighter jets to secure its aircraft. It added that there had never been any airport violations during its three-hour mission.
The government of Ukraine’s eastern Ivano-Frankivsk place said that important network features had been targeted in the assault, without elaborating.
Authorities in the Lviv area, which borders Poland and the EU, reported that two crucial infrastructure facilities had been damaged in the Drogobych and Stryi regions.
” There were no fatalities, but there was damage”, government Maksym Kozytsky wrote on social advertising.
After ending the day’s of disaster disruptions in seven regions, Ukrainians were urged by the national grid operator Ukrenergo to restrict their daily use of electricity.
Russia advancements-
However, the president of the southwestern area of Kherson stated that “part of our society is without electricity” as a result of the over barrage, without providing statistics on the number of people without power.
AFP editors reportedly resonated with lights as Kyiv issued air raid notifications across the country early on Wednesday.
Moscow has been conducting a month-long bombing battle against Russian energy system, claiming that it is bombing facilities that aid Kyiv’s defense.
The Russian army had accused Kyiv of using US- and British-provided weapons in one of the attacks the day before promising that it would” never get unanswered.”
The growing drone and missile strikes from Kyiv and Moscow come at a hard time for Ukraine across the sprawling back line.
Russian troops have consistently made progress at key positions in the northeastern Kharkiv and eastern Donetsk regions by utilizing their human resources advantages.
The Russian defense ministry announced on Wednesday that its causes had taken control of the town of Ukrainka in the industrialized Donetsk area, which the Kremlin claims is a part of Russia, expanding on those gains.
Despite the battle lasting for almost three times, there are still some areas of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv, which announced on Wednesday that they had exchanged 25 prisoners of war each.
