According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched several Kinjal hypersonic missiles towards its territory in the morning on its neighbor.
New day of terror. Ukraine’s energy facilities are the target of a “massive” Russian missile attack this Friday, December 13, Ukrainian authorities announced, with Russia regularly bombing these infrastructures and causing power outages across the country in high season. winter.
For its part, DTEK, a private electricity supplier, stressed that Ukrainian thermal power plants were “seriously damaged” by these strikes. “This is the twelfth massive attack against the Ukrainian energy sector” this year alone, he added.
Missiles hypersoniques
The exact extent of the damage is not immediately known, but the energy operator Ukrenergo has already announced the extension of power cuts across the country.
“The enemy continues with terror. Once again, the energy sector across Ukraine is the target of a massive attack,” the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched several Kinjal hypersonic missiles, groups of cruise missiles and explosive drones at its neighbor in the morning.
Engineers “are taking all necessary measures to minimize the negative consequences for the energy system,” assured the Ministry of Energy.
Russian strategy as winter approaches
For its part, the Kremlin confirmed that it had struck Ukraine “massively” on Friday, in response to attacks from kyiv with American ATACMS missiles carried out according to Moscow two days earlier.
“In response to the use of long-range American weapons, the Russian armed forces carried out a massive attack on critical installations of the energy infrastructure” of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. published on Telegram.
For almost three years, Russia has been bombarding Ukrainian energy facilities with missiles and drones, particularly as winter approaches and in winter, causing power shortages and plunging millions of people into darkness and cold. Ukrainians.
“Russia seeks to deprive us of energy. And we must deprive it of the means to (spread) its terror. I repeat my call for the urgent delivery of 20 air defense systems, NASAMS, HAWK and IRIS-T” , Foreign Minister Andriï Sybiga wrote on X.
