SSeventy missiles and more than a hundred explosive drones were fired by Russia at Ukraine, targeting in particular the energy system.
This attack, which occurred on Christmas Day, caused the death of at least one person and left, according to kyiv, hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity or heating.
Six regions targeted
The strikes hit six Ukrainian regions, leaving at least one dead and six injured, and causing widespread heating outages in near-zero temperatures, according to Ukrainian authorities. In the city of Dnieper, in the center-east of the country, an employee of a thermal power plant was killed, said Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiï Kuleba. In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city located in the North-East and often targeted, half a million homes remained without electricity, heating and running water, said the governor of this region, Oleg Synegoubov.
ALSO READ Donald Trump is already marking his difference with Joe Biden on the war in UkraineAt least six people were injured in Kharkiv in these latest attacks, according to Oleg Synegoubov. The Ukrainian air force said it had detected 78 Russian missiles and 106 drones, claiming to have shot down 59 and 54 respectively. Since the start of its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has regularly bombed the power grid of its neighbor, plunging hundreds of thousands of people, even millions, into the dark and the cold, often by […] Read more
