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A series of Russian strikes with missiles and drones hit several thermal and hydro power plants in central and western Ukraine, according to the country’s power grid operator Ukrenergo and other official sources.
“During the night, the Russians struck again at energy facilities in a massive and combined attack,” Ukrenergo said on its official channel on the Telegram messaging app. “Thermal and hydroelectric power plants in the central and western regions were damaged.”
Explosions were reported in the regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyi and Lviv as well as the city of Dnipro as cruise missiles and suicide were spotted in Ukrainian air space.
Maksym Kozytskyi, head of Lviv Military Administration, said that two missiles damaged a critical infrastructure facility in the region.
In addition, regional officials in Dnipro said that Russian forces had attacked infrastructure in the Kamianske district near the city. Ukrainian energy minister German Galushchenko also said that power facilities in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Cherkasy were attacked.
Moreover, Ukraine’s largest private power firm, DTEK, reported that its three thermal power plants were attacked, without providing any details.
“The equipment was severely damaged,” it said on Telegram. “After the attack ended, the power engineers promptly started to repair the damage.”
Commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Mykola Oleschuk said in a statement that the Russian large-scale attack involved 60 Geran-1/2 suicide drones, three Kh-47M2 Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic missiles, two Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles, nine Kh-59 air-launched cruise missiles, four Iskander-K cruise missiles, 21 Kh-101/Kh-555 air-launched cruise missiles.
Ignoring the massive damage caused by the attack, Oleschuk alleged that Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 58 Geran-1/2 drones as well as 17 Kh-101/Kh-555 and Five Kh-59 missiles. No evidence backing these claims was presented.
The Russian military resumed large-scale strikes against Ukraine last week after a series of of provocations by Kiev, including dozens of strikeswith rockets, missiles and suicide drones on Russian territory as well as cross-border attack. These provocations were mainly meant to terrorize Russian civilians.
Recent attacks on Ukraine targeted power plants and related infrastructure, which indicate that Russia has resumed the campaign against the Ukrainian power grid which was suspended last year.
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turn off the lights in the dying, sputtering rump ukrapper dumpster fire that the natostan demons torched imagining that they could poke the mighty russian bear with their latest bout of anglozionazi fascism and live to tell the tale. z all the way to the end of the evil eussr and the washing town reptile$. russia finished the 2nd world war and will now finish the 3rd on mother russia’s terms only.
“the mighty russian bear”🤡🤣🤣🤣
vs the mighty german beer belly
the mighty amerikaunt talibanned lizard
like medieval amerikunt want live in lgbt teepee—ukie no want electricity—we ony use fart power pay more than all nations for electricity—in dempmark happiness is submissiveness
i’m guessing these days of reckoning are going to be dark days, until the russian army arrive and frees ukraine of its us and nato problem.
remember the “great russian winter offensive “…???
heheheh…me neither…
why start an offensive when it is better to wait until the enemy runs out of steam and collapses
surprising, since you along with western rag puppets made it up.
no. did you learn about it from msnbc?
pathetic lgbt us army transvestite!
what a beautiful catastrophe and all the nato shitheads are welcomed to step in it.
amazing that these nato useful idiots march voluntarily to a certain death fcol
boh povedal a budiš svetlo a bolo svetlo. putin povedal a budiš tma a bola tma … ha, ha, ha … tak, že tak. banderovské fašistické svine teraz majú čo chceli. svetu mier!!!
ukrop going to be the first country on the european continent that will reach net zero carbon emission with all these plants out of order. the europhile in brussels rejoice.
nato humiliation—the amerikan hillbilly again displayed—ugly weak immoral —their tantrums peurile desperate