Russia has fired “more than 40 missiles” and “more than 70 drones,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday. “In the middle of winter, the Russians’ target remains unchanged: our energy sector. Among the targets are gas infrastructures and energy installations which ensure normal life for the population,” he lamented on social networks.
Russia has been pounding its neighbor’s power grid and other infrastructure since its invasion of Ukraine began three years ago, regularly causing widespread power outages across the country. “Two critical infrastructure sites were hit in the Drogobych and Stryi districts,” Lviv region governor Maksym Kozytsky said in a statement.
A missile fell near a house in the village of Sknyliv creating a crater 6 meters wide, without causing any casualties, he added. In the neighboring region of Ivano-Frankivsk, the attack targeted “essential infrastructure sites”, without causing any casualties, said the governor of this territory Stitlana Onychchouk.
Power cuts
“The enemy continues to terrorize the Ukrainians,” protested Energy Minister German Galushchenko on Facebook, denouncing a “massive” attack. The national electricity operator Ukrenergo immediately announced emergency power cuts in seven Ukrainian regions located in the East, Center and South.
These strikes come the day after an attack on energy and military sites in Russia, claimed by Ukraine as “the most important” on Russian soil since the start of the war. This Ukrainian attack targeted oil refineries and fuel depots, as well as chemical factories manufacturing, according to kyiv, components for the Russian military sector.
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