The targets of the attacks were especially the energy infrastructure. Zelenskyi is visiting Lithuania.
On the night before Thursday, Russia carried out missile and drone attacks on Ukraine.
Two people were killed and four were wounded in the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, the governor of the Mykolaiv region said Vitaly Kim In Telegram.
President of Ukraine to Volodymyr Zelensky According to the attacks on Ukraine, critical infrastructure was targeted.
– Russia attacked Ukraine during the night with more than 40 missiles and about 40 drones. Some of the missiles and Shahed aircraft were successfully shot down. Unfortunately, only a part, Zelenskyi said on the messaging service X.
Zelenskyi called on Western countries to give Ukraine more anti-aircraft systems.
On Thursday, Zelenskyi himself is on a visit to Vilnius, Lithuania, where he will meet the President of Lithuania Gitanas Naustedan and other leaders of Eastern and Central European countries. In connection with the visit, it was reported that Ukraine had signed a 10-year defense agreement with Latvia.
Attacks on Kharkiv
The target of Thursday’s Russian attacks was especially Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv and its surroundings. Governor of Kharkiv region Oleh Synjehubov previously said that Russia had carried out at least 10 attacks against the region’s critical infrastructure.
According to the mayor of Kharkiv, power outages in the city are possible.
Attacks were also carried out during the night on infrastructure targets in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhya, Odessa and Lviv.
In recent months, Russia has carried out massive attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. On some days during the winter, the number of attacks has been the highest since the beginning of the war in 2022.
Russia said on Thursday that it had destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones during the night. Airplanes were shot down even in the Republic of Mordovia, which is located more than 500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
On Wednesday, seven people were reported to have died in Ukraine in Russian attacks.