This morning, Russia launched more than forty missiles and nearly forty drones against different parts of Ukraine, in a new wave of attacks that mainly targeted critical Ukrainian infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced this Thursday. “A part of the missiles and the Shahed (drones) could have been shot down. Unfortunately, only a part,” Zelensky said on his social networks, explaining that he highlighted the “vileness” of the attacks perpetrated by Russia in this wave against the Kharkiv region and its capital of the same name.
According to the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Oleksí Kuleba, more than 200,000 subscribers to the electricity system have been left without electricity in that region as a result of the attack. Located in northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv has been bombed relentlessly by Russia in recent weeks, causing serious problems with electricity supplies in the region.
As Zelensky explained, Russia also attacked infrastructure in the regions of Kyiv (north), Zaporizhia (southeast), Odesa (south) and Lviv (west) this morning.
Shortly before, Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko reported attacks against “generation and distribution infrastructure in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv and Kyiv.” “Workers in the sector are working to repair the effects” of the attacks, the minister said on Facebook.
At the end of March, Russia began its worst campaign of attacks against the electrical system since at the end of 2022 it left millions of Ukrainians without light and heating for weeks with its blows to the energy system. The Russian attacks that began last month have damaged much of the Ukrainian generation and distribution infrastructure and have destroyed several plants of different types.
In his message today, Zelensky has once again asked his allies to react urgently to cover Ukraine’s “critical needs” in terms of air defense.
Russia has focused this campaign of attacks against the Ukrainian energy sector in regions insufficiently protected by the Western air defense systems received by Ukraine, which have guaranteed the protection of Kyiv but remain insufficient to defend the rest of the national territory from missiles and drones. Russians.
