One of the biggest bombardments since the war started has seen a wave of Russian missile attacks target cities all around Ukraine.
Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported that explosions in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv resulted in the hospitalization of at least three individuals, among them a 14-year-old girl.
In the cities of Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, and Zhytomyr, blasts were also audible.
According to the Ukrainian military, 69 missiles were fired, 54 of which were shot down by air defenses.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a presidential adviser, earlier claimed that more than 120 missiles had been fired towards infrastructure used by civilians.
A large missile strike on Ukraine was mentioned by Maksym Marchenko, the regional leader of the southern province of Odesa, during the air raid, which lasted for about five hours.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia used airborne and maritime cruise missiles to assault the nation from a variety of angles. It further mentioned that several Kamikaze drones had been used.
In an operational briefing, Brig Gen Oleksiy Hromov stated that the strikes had targeted energy infrastructure throughout the entire nation.
According to the municipal military authority, debris from thwarted missiles damaged two homes in Kyiv. According to Mr. Klitschko, air defenses shot down 16 missiles above the city.
Governor Vitaly Kim said that air defenses in the southern district of Mykolaiv stopped five missiles, while Mayor Andriy Sadovy reported that many explosions had been recorded in the western city of Lviv.
Mr. Marchenko reported that the Ukrainian military shot down 21 missiles in the Odesa region. A residential building had been struck by missile fragments, he continued, but there had been no injuries.
A senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky also reported that a missile had struck a resident’s home in a settlement in the western part of Ivano-Frankivsk but had not exploded.
Mr. Podolyak referred to the attacks as evil and charged Moscow with wanting to obliterate vital infrastructure and massacre large numbers of civilians.
Recently, Ukraine has been subjected to dozens of Russian strikes, which have repeatedly resulted in power outages all around the nation. Herman Halushchenko, Ukraine’s energy minister, claimed that the most recent attacks had damaged power plants and described the situation in the Odesa and Kyiv regions as tough.
While Mr. Klitschko said that 40% of Kyiv was still without electricity on Thursday, the mayor of Lviv reported that 90% of his city was without power.
Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions both reported power outages.
In the central city of Kryvyi Rih, Oleksandr Vilkul, director of the military administration, claimed missiles fired against his city had been
That many missile attacks can’t be provided by the defense sector at this time. They are currently looking for missile weapons in other nations of the world for this and other reasons.
Earlier this month, a senior US source told the news agency Reuters that recent weeks had seen Moscow using outdated munitions with a high failure rate.
Additionally, the UK’s envoy to the UN claimed that Russia was attempting to buy hundreds of ballistic missiles from Iran in addition to other weaponry.
According to Dame Barbara Woodward, the UK is almost convinced that Russia is looking to source weapons from North Korea and other countries that have been subject to harsh sanctions since their own supplies are visibly depleting.
Sources. BBC World News.
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