According to Ukraine, a third of the power plants have been destroyed by Russian bombings in less than two weeks.
Teemu Juhola,
Sakari Nuuttila
According to Ukraine, Russia launched missile attacks on power plants again this morning. The attacks have caused power outages in various parts of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Air Force says Russia fired 33 missiles, of which the Air Force says it intercepted 18 missiles. Some of the missiles were shot down near the capital, Kyiv. The missile strikes were made after eleven o’clock.
According to Ukraine’s national electricity company Ukrenergo, the attacks mainly targeted the distribution network in the western part of the country.
Repair work is underway, but due to the attacks, electricity distribution has been limited in ten areas throughout the country, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Sumy.
Electricity has been cut off for hundreds of thousands of people in the western and southern parts of Ukraine.
In certain areas, the use of electricity is limited by a fifth. The authorities have appealed to people to save electricity.
Ukraine: Damages in the same category as on October 10
Attacks on power plants have been reported by regional leaders in the western regions of Rivne, Khemlnytskyi and Volyn.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, Russia also carried out attacks on power plants in the southern Odessa region and in the Kirovohrad region in the central part of the country.
According to Ukrenergo, the attacks have caused similar or greater damage to energy distribution than Russia’s 10.-12. the attacks of October. On October 10, Russia fired more than 80 missiles into Ukraine.
President to Volodymyr Zelensky according to the report, a third of Ukraine’s power plants have been destroyed by Russian bombing in less than two weeks.
Ukraine warns Russia that it mined the hydroelectric plant
According to the US-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russia has begun withdrawing its troops from the western parts of the Kherson region. Ukraine has made progress in the region in recent weeks.
The British Ministry of Defense, on the other hand, says that Russia has completed the pontoon bridge crossing the Dnieper River.
The barge-built bridge runs next to the Antonivskyi bridge, which was bombed by Ukraine. Ukraine has bombed a bridge near the city of Kherson to slow Russia’s advance across the river.
President Zelenskyi has demanded Western countries to warn Russia not to blow up the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant in the Kherson region. Zelenskyi said that Russia had previously mined a power plant along the Dnieper River.
Blowing up the dam would cause great destruction in the southern part of Ukraine.
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