Published December 25,2024
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Russia attacked Ukraine’s power system and cities in its jap area with cruise and ballistic missiles on Wednesday morning, Ukraine’s power minister and native officers stated.
At least three individuals had been wounded in a missile assault on Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Wednesday morning, Mayor Ihor Terekhov stated.
Ukrainian air forces stated Kharkiv was attacked by ballistic missiles and regional governor Oleh Syniehubov stated on the Telegram messaging app that there have been “damages to civilian non-residential infrastructure”.
Separately, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak stated on Telegram: “Since the morning, the Russian army has been massively attacking the Dnipro region. It is trying to destroy the region’s power system.”
Ukraine’s power minister German Galushchenko stated on Facebook that Russia “is massively attacking the power sector” and that the transmission system operator had imposed restrictions on electrical energy provide to minimise the impression.
Russia has intensified its assaults on the Ukrainian power sector since spring 2004, damaging virtually half of its producing capability and inflicting hours-long blackouts all through the nation.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Ukrainian army launched a national air alert in response to Russian cruise missile launches.
Local authorities and the air pressure reported missile overflights within the jap, central, southern and western areas.
During a earlier huge missile assault on Nov. 17, Russia launched 120 missiles and 90 drones, killing not less than seven individuals and inflicting extreme harm to the facility system.
Power distributor DTEK imposed emergency energy cuts of as much as eight hours throughout giant components of Ukraine.
Source: www.anews.com.tr