Putin threatens Kyiv with new hypersonic cruise missile

Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday threatened to onslaught "decision-making centers successful the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, with Russia’s caller Oreshnik hypersonic cruise missiles, aft pounding Ukrainian vigor infrastructure and cutting disconnected powerfulness to much than 1 cardinal radical crossed the country.

"We bash not regularisation retired the usage of Oreshnik against the military, military-industrial oregon decision-making centers, including successful Kyiv," Putin told a quality league successful the Kasakh capital, Astana.

He said helium launched Thursday’s drone and rocket onslaught against Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure successful effect to Ukrainian strikes connected Russian territory with U.S. medium-range ATACMS missiles.

The onslaught marked Russia’s 2nd large onslaught connected Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure this month. Officials said it was the 11th large onslaught connected Ukraine’s vigor strategy since March.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of a "despicable escalation," saying it had utilized cruise missiles with clump munitions.

The onslaught marks Russia’s 2nd large onslaught connected Ukraine’s vigor infrastructure this month. Officials said it was the 11th large onslaught connected Ukraine’s vigor strategy since March.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow launched the onslaught successful effect to Ukrainian strikes connected Russian territory with U.S. medium-range ATACMS missiles. Putin besides said Russia’s aboriginal targets could see "decision-making centers" successful Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

Ukraine called connected the planetary assemblage to respond to Putin’s threats to people authorities centers successful Kyiv.

"We expect those countries that person urged everyone to avert the enlargement of the warfare to respond to the statements voiced by Putin today," Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said.

In summation to the much than 1 cardinal radical who mislaid powerfulness successful the aftermath of the strikes, millions much had their existing docket of rolling powerfulness cuts escalated.

The Ukrainian aerial unit said Russia utilized 91 missiles and 97 drones successful the assault. The aerial unit said 12 of those deed their targets, the bulk of which were vigor and substance facilities. All missiles oregon drones aimed astatine Kyiv were brought down, officials said.

"The force is utilizing a ample fig of missiles and drones. Their monolithic usage successful definite areas often exceeds the fig of means of [air defense] cover," the aerial unit said successful a statement.

In the Lviv region, 523,000 subscribers mislaid electricity, determination caput Maksym Kozytsky said connected societal media. The region, successful the occidental portion of the country, borders Poland.

Directly northbound of the Lviv region, 215,000 customers mislaid powerfulness successful the portion of Volyn, and 280,000 mislaid powerfulness successful the neighboring Rivne region, their governors said.

"Energy infrastructure is erstwhile again targeted by the enemy’s monolithic strike," Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko wrote connected Facebook.

Ukrenergo, the nationalist electrical grid operator, introduced exigency powerfulness cuts amid the attack, Galushchenko said.

Officials told Reuters that respective atomic powerfulness units were disconnected from the web during the attacks.

Private powerfulness institution DTEK said the powerfulness cuts impacted Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions.

Some determination officials said h2o work was besides affected by the airstrikes.

The caput of Ukraine’s statesmanlike office, Andrii Yermak, said successful a Telegram station that Russia had stockpiled missiles to onslaught Ukrainian infrastructure and wage warfare against civilians during the acold season, The Associated Press reported.

The three-year day of Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine is looming, and Russian crushed forces are advancing astatine their fastest gait successful 2 years.

On Thursday, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry urged its partners to accelerate the transportation of subject aid, saying that was much important than drafting much men.

"We are present successful the concern erstwhile we request much instrumentality to limb each the radical that person already been mobilized, and we deliberation the archetypal precedence is to nonstop quicker, faster subject aid," Tykhyi, the spokesperson for Ukraine’s overseas ministry, told reporters successful Kyiv.

The connection comes 1 time aft a elder U.S. authoritative said Wednesday that Ukraine should see lowering the property of subject work for its soldiers from 25 years aged to 18 successful bid to regenerate those mislaid connected the battlefield.

On Thursday, the Ukrainian president’s main of unit Andriy Yermak said Ukraine is acceptable to big a 2nd planetary acme aimed astatine ending Russia’s penetration successful the "nearest future," according to section media.

Kyiv hosted its archetypal "peace summit" successful June successful Switzerland. Russia was not invited.

Speaking successful Kazakhstan connected Thursday, Putin said determination were nary preconditions to commencement talks with Ukraine connected a imaginable bid deal, but that presumption helium acceptable retired successful June for the woody remained the same.

In June, Putin said Russia would extremity the warfare lone if Kyiv agreed to driblet its NATO ambitions and manus implicit 4 full Ukrainian provinces claimed by Moscow. Kyiv rejected those demands arsenic amounting to surrender.

Some accusation successful this study came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.