‘Massive enemy attack’: Russia strikes Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

Russian rocket attacks person been reported crossed Ukraine, with exigency powerfulness outages introduced successful Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Donetsk regions.

Ukraine’s power infrastructure has travel “under monolithic force attack”, according to the country’s vigor minister, aft a nationwide aerial raid alert was issued owed to incoming Russian missiles.

In a Facebook station connected Thursday, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said that “attacks connected vigor facilities are taking spot crossed Ukraine”, adding that the nationalist powerfulness grid’s relation had “urgently introduced exigency powerfulness cuts”.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence has not yet made immoderate announcements.

Explosions were heard successful the Ukrainian cities of Odesa, Kropyvnytskyi, Kharkiv, Rivne and Lutsk connected Thursday morning, Ukrainian quality outlets Dzerkalo Tyzhnia and Suspilne said.

“Air defence forces enactment successful the capital. Stay successful shelters!” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said connected the Telegram messaging app.

The determination subject medication reported connected its Telegram transmission that the infrastructure of the Shostka assemblage successful Ukraine’s Sumy portion besides came nether a Russian rocket strike, with its interaction being assessed.

People instrumentality structure wrong a metro presumption during a Russian subject onslaught successful Kyiv, Ukraine [Alina Smutko/Reuters]

Three rocket strikes were reported connected the Kyiv territory of Kharkiv by the caput of the determination subject administration, Oleg Sinegubov.

“As of this moment, determination are nary casualties,” helium wrote connected his Telegram transmission astatine 6:35am (04:35 GMT).

There are powerfulness outages successful Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Donetsk regions, according to nationalist powerfulness grid relation Ukrenergo, arsenic temperatures crossed the state dropped to astir 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit).

‘Terror tactics’

Reacting to the attacks, Andriy Yermak, the caput of Ukraine’s statesmanlike office, said “the Russians proceed their panic tactics”.

“They stockpiled missiles to onslaught Ukrainian infrastructure, to wage warfare connected civilians during the acold weather, during the winter. They were helped by their brainsick allies, successful peculiar from the DPRK,” helium wrote connected his Telegram channel, referring to North Korea by its authoritative name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

“They are adjacent warring with children. Ukraine has thing to respond with,” helium added.

The Ukrainian Navy said connected Thursday that the Russian Navy has deployed 4 Kalibr bearer ships to combat work successful the Black Sea with a full salvo of up to 22 missiles.

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