UPDATE ON THE SITUATION – Ukrainian authorities fear the start of a new campaign of attacks against energy infrastructure, as in the winter of 2022 and 2023, aimed at plunging Ukrainians into cold and darkness.
At least twelve people were injured Sunday evening in Russian strikes on three neighborhoods of Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, which deprived part of the city of electricity.
«Around 10 p.m. (7 p.m. GMT), the Russians bombed three districts of Kharkiv (…) 12 civilians were injured, including seven women aged 22 to 83 and five men aged 21 to 38.», Announced the police in a press release published on Telegram.
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According to this source, “apartment buildings, garages, gas stations, houses and cars were damaged» and rescuers are mobilized to the affected sites. But above all, “due to enemy strikes there is no electricity in some parts of the city», added the Ukrainian police, who however did not specify how many homes were affected by these cuts.
Attacks on energy infrastructure
The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Synegoubov, and the mayor of the big city, Oleg Terekhov, confirmed on Telegram power outages in “part» of the city. However, the two officials did not provide further details on the exact extent of the damage, nor did they specify which energy infrastructure had been affected.
These bombings come as the Ukrainian authorities fear the start of a new Russian campaign of attacks against the country’s civilian energy infrastructure, as in the winter of 2022 and 2023, a means then used by Moscow to submerge millions of Ukrainians. in the cold and the dark, and thus put pressure on kyiv.
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Kharkiv, a large city in the eponymous region in northeastern Ukraine, is very regularly the target of Russian fire. It is located less than 30 kilometers from the border with Russia.
In May, the Russian army attempted an offensive in this region bordering Russia, with the aim of creating a buffer zone and thus limiting Ukrainian attacks against military or industrial targets on Russian soil. But this assault did not have the desired effect, kyiv continuing to target Russian territory on a daily basis.
