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INTERNATIONAL – Ukraine says it was targeted by “one of the greatest” air attacks launched by Russia since the invasion began almost a thousand days ago. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported this Sunday, November 17, 120 missiles and 90 drones launched by Vladimir Putin's forces on several cities across the country. These strikes described as “ massive » have targeted the Ukrainian energy system and three regions are now plunged into darkness, as you can see in our video at the top of the article.
HuffPost takes stock of this Kremlin offensive which began while Ukrainian civilians were still asleep and which left at least eight dead.
• « Emergency power outages » in three regions
“A massive combined attack targeted all regions of Ukraine. Last night and this morning, Russian terrorists used different types of drones, including Shaheds (Iranian machines, editor's note), as well as cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles.declared the Ukrainian president in a statement shared on his social networks.
Adding that the “ Ukrainian energy system was the target of these attacks, Zelensky continued: “Unfortunately, some facilities were damaged by direct hits and falling debris. » Consequence: the Ukrainian energy operator, DTEK, announced “emergency power outages” in the kyiv region and in two regions in the east of the country, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk.
Power and water were also suspended in parts of Odessa, a large southern port city, according to its mayor. Of the “essential infrastructure” or “energetic” were also affected by attacks in the regions of Vinnytsia (central-west), Rivné, Volynié (west) and Zaporizhia (south), indicated the various local authorities. However, the extent of the damage is difficult to estimate at this time.
Russia, by increasing its drone and missile attacks, has destroyed half of Ukraine's energy capacity, raising fears of a harsh winter. kyiv is urging its Western partners to help rebuild its electricity network, a project that requires significant investment.
• At least eight dead and dozens injured
In total, various Russian attacks against the country during the night and the morning left eight dead and around twenty injured, according to the latest report.
Very early this Sunday morning, a drone strike killed two people and injured six others, including two children, in Mykolaiv, in the South, according to the emergency services.
Also in southern Ukraine, two employees of the state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia were killed in the bombing of a depot in Nikopol, and three were injured, the company announced.
A woman was also killed and two people were injured by a missile attack against the Lviv region, located in the West and more rarely targeted, announced the head of the military administration, Maksym Kozytsky.
Two people were killed and a 17-year-old boy injured in Odessa, according to Governor Oleg Kiper. Two others were also injured in kyiv during an attack on a residential building, according to the Interior Ministry. And several people were also injured in separate attacks in Dnipro (east), as well as in the regions of Poltava (center), Zaporizhia and Kherson (south).
• Poland takes off fighter planes
Russian missiles and drones have even reached Transcarpathia, a region very rarely targeted in the far west of the country, far from the front and bordering Poland and Hungary in particular.
As a precaution, the Polish army announced on Sunday that it had taken off fighter planes and mobilized forces to defend its territory, a regular procedure in the event of danger near its borders.
At the end of the morning, the Polish army announced on X that it was recalling its fighter planes after “the end of Russian strikes”.
• The ” real answer » from Putin to Western leaders
Minister Andriï Sybiga estimated that these attacks constituted the “true answer” from Russian President Vladimir Putin to the leaders who “called or visited him” lately.
kyiv was particularly annoyed on Friday by a telephone call between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Vladimir Putin, the first since December 2022. Talk to Vladimir Putin “opens Pandora’s box”avait fustigé Volodymyr Zelensky.
Before that, the Russian president had gathered world leaders around him in Russia, including United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, for the Brics summit.
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