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| Russia launched a massive airstrike on Ukraine's energy sector. |
The Russian military launched a massive attack on Ukraine’s energy sector on Thursday, forcing emergency power outages as temperatures plummeted across the country. Ukraine’s energy grid has been hit hard since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, with Kiev accusing Moscow of “terrorist” tactics by trying to plunge Ukrainian cities into darkness and leaving citizens sweltering throughout the winter.
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The overnight attacks follow a dramatic
two-week escalation that has seen both sides launch new weapons to gain the
upper hand ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.K. president in January.
Ukraine’s Energy Minister German
Galushchenko said the power infrastructure was “under a massive enemy attack”
after a nationwide air alert was issued for incoming missiles. The air force
reported Russian cruise missiles and attack drones heading towards cities
across the country, including the capital Kyiv, Kharkiv in the northeast and
the Black Sea port city of Odessa.
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Once again, the energy sector is under
heavy enemy attack. Galushenko said attacks on energy facilities were taking
place across Ukraine.
National power grid operator Ukrenergo
had immediately introduced emergency power cuts, adding that temperatures had
dropped to around 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit).
Energy supplier DTEK said Ukrenergo was
introducing emergency power cuts in the Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Donetsk
regions. According to air force messages, the attack across the country had
been going on since 8:00 a.m. (0600 GMT).
Galushenko said the consequences (of the
strikes) would be explained as soon as the security situation allowed it.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said the wave of attacks showed
Russia was continuing its terrorist tactics.
They stockpiled missiles for attacks on
Ukrainian infrastructure, for the winter war against civilians, Andriy Yermak
said in a post on Telegram, promising that Ukraine would respond.
A senior UN official, Rosemary DeCarlo,
warned this month that Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure could
make this winter the harshest since the war began.
Russia said earlier this week it was
preparing to retaliate using US-supplied ATACMS missiles to Ukrainian attacks
on its territory.
Ukraine has launched at least three
missile strikes on Russian border areas since the White House gave it
permission to fire on Russian territory.
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Moscow responded to the first attack by
firing a never-before-seen hypersonic ballistic missile over the Ukrainian city
of Dnipro.
In an angry address to the nation, Russian
President Vladimir Putin warned that nuclear-capable missiles could be used
against Western countries if they let Ukraine use its weapons to target Russia.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on
Thursday it had shot down 25 Ukrainian drones fired overnight, 14 of which were
in the southern Krasnodar region -- just east of the Crimean peninsula.
The governor of Krasnodar said a woman was injured by falling debris in the town of Slavyansk-on-Kuban, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of the Kerch Bridge -- a major infrastructure project linking Crimea to Russia that Kiev has heavily targeted throughout the war.
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The latest missile salvo came a day
after US President-elect Trump named retired General Keith Kellogg, a staunch
loyalist, as his Ukraine envoy, charged with ending the Russian invasion.
Trump campaigned on a platform of
quickly ending the Ukraine war, boasting that he would immediately broker a
ceasefire agreement -- comments that have raised concerns in Kiev that the
United States could pull him off the ground.
Kellogg, an 80-year-old national
security veteran, co-authored a paper this year calling on Washington to
leverage military aid to advance peace talks.
The outgoing Joe Biden administration
has urged Ukraine to raise the minimum age for conscription to 18 to address a
severe manpower shortage along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line.
Russian troops have been advancing in
the east for months, where they have a manpower and ammunition advantage over
Ukraine's stretched forces.
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