Putin’s criminal campaign continues with massive air strikes against infrastructure and energy
The day before celebrations for this New Year in Ukraine, Russia started one of the most powerful missile strikes of the fight against the energy infrastructure. After dawn the sound of blasts was heard throughout cities and towns across the country as the 69 cruise missiles as well as armed drones struck civilian targets. It was Kyiv said was one of the biggest days of air strikes since the Kremlin began a campaign to attack Ukraine’s electric, water and heating and power supply systems in which, as temperatures began to decrease with the advent of winter have centered on power stations. The strikes on Thursday were the 10th major attack on Ukraine’s power grid in the month of the beginning of September.
Russian Presidency Vladimir Putin has employed the tactic of breaking the spirit to take on Ukraine’s civilian population by casting the non-combatants out into darkness and cold at sub-zero temperature as the conflict enters its 10th month. According to Kyiv the air defense unit of the Ukrainian military brought down 54 of the 69 cruise missiles fired from Russian forces. However, the most recent wave of strike left nearly 90% in the capital city Lviv in western Ukraine not having electricity According to the local authorities in addition to water supply being severely hit. In Kyiv around 40% of the homes in Kyiv were not equipped with electric power, Kyiv’s mayor Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said.
A Ukrainian anti-aircraft ballistic missile landed on Belarusian border, according to BelTA, the state media agency. BelTA added the report did not mention any injuries. It is believed that the Belarusian Defense Ministry is investigating whether the missile was shot down through its air defense systems , or if the target was missed.
In the early morning hours over Kiev The hum of missiles, and the gray trail were seen across the sky. Sirens from air raids had previously warned that Kiev as well as the entire country is on alert for a missile attack. In Thursday’s attacks, sixteen projectiles launched from Moscow targeted the Ukrainian capital. All of them were stopped by anti-aircraft defenses according to Kyiv authorities. But, fragments of shells struck two houses, a children’s playground and an industrial plant, and injured three individuals, among them a 14-year-old girl According to the Kyiv mayor’s office.
Russian strikes have also damaged infrastructure located in port cities like Odesa and in the northern cities of Zhytomyr as well as Kharkiv. Numerous buildings, an electric line, and a gas pipeline was damaged during attacks on the outer reaches of the central city of southern Zaporizhzhia According to the regional governor, Oleksandr Staruj. In Kherson, which was liberated in November by Ukrainian force in late November, and is the site of extensive shelling during the past few days, a missile hit a medical clinic, according the local authorities. It injured two patients. “They believe that Ukrainians can celebrate New Year’s Eve and celebrate the New Year in darkness and cold. But they cannot defeat the Ukrainian population,” Kyiv’s Defense Ministry stated on social media.
A power plant located in Kyiv is burning after an attack from a drone on the night of December 19, 2022. A power plant in Kyiv is burning after an attack by drones on December 19, 2022.
SERGEI SUPINSKY (AFP)
The latest batch of air strike was conducted by at most two warships , as well as 13 strategically bombers carrying cruise missiles in the words of the Ukrainian Air Force. Before the missiles began to drop, Moscow sent waves of Iranian-made Shahed suicide drones. These are deployed by Russian forces to try to deter Ukrainian air defense teams ahead of subsequent missile strikes. thirteen of these drones was directed at Kharkiv which saw 11 of them shot down, according to the local authorities. In Dnipro which is a city that plays a crucial role situated in the central region of the country and a logistics and communications center Five drones were destroyed prior to a flurry of missiles launched. The Ukrainian Army’s southern command is reporting that three Russian ship carrying missiles took over positions for combat in the Black Sea.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned a few days earlier that Russia was planning large-scale strikes during the Christmas vacation. “With the approaching holiday season, Russian terrorists may become active again,” he declared. “They despise Christian values and any values in general.”
The strikes on Thursday came just days after the drone strike on the Russian strategically-positioned bomber base at the base from which Moscow has launched raids against critical Ukrainian infrastructure. Three Russian military personnel were injured in an attack that exposed cracks in Moscow’s anti-aircraft defenses. This was the second drone raid executed the Engels airbase in the Saratov region, several hundred miles away from the Ukrainian frontier. Like it had done in earlier attacks against bases on Russian areas it was the Ukrainian government used cryptic language however, failing to attribute the attacks to its own military while also insisting they are in direct response to Russia’s war.
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