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Ukrainian authorities said the country came under a massive Russian missile attack early Wednesday that forced emergency power cuts across large swathes of the war-battered nation.
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Olesia Safronova
Published Jan 15, 2025 • 1 minute read
(Bloomberg) — Ukrainian authorities said the country came under a massive Russian missile attack early Wednesday that forced emergency power cuts across large swathes of the war-battered nation.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the energy sector was the main target of the strike, which consisted of more than 40 missiles — including ballistic missiles — and 70 drones.
“Gas infrastructure and energy facilities were among the targets,” Zelenskiy said in Telegram post. Ukraine needs to strengthen its air defense, he said, urging partners to fulfill promises made to Ukraine in NATO meetings and last week’s gathering of defense ministers in Germany.
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Ukrainian officials have braced for stepped up attacks on its energy infrastructure, which has been decimated by Russia’s war, leaving millions without electricity as winter temperatures plunge below freezing. Kyiv’s military is struggling to hold off a grinding Russian offensive as it secures more territory in the country’s east.
Ukrenergo, the country’s grid operator, imposed outages in the northeastern Kharkiv and Sumy regions, Donetsk in the east and the central regions of Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, and Kirovohrad, it said on Telegram. The company later restored power in some regions.
Ukraine’s air defense said earlier that the attacks also bore down on targets in the country’s western and northwestern regions farther from the front line. The first strike of its kind this year prompted neighboring Poland to scramble military jets to protect its airspace.
Authorities said civilian infrastructure in the Lviv region near the Polish border were damaged, but reported no casualties.
The assault comes a day after Ukraine carried out a massive attack on energy and military facilities across central Russia and the Volga region. Those raids targeted two chemical plants in the Tula and Bryansk regions and hit an ammunition warehouse at the Engels airfield in the Saratov region, setting Rosneft PJSC’s Saratov oil refinery on fire, a Ukrainian official said.
(Updated with Zelenskiy comment, Ukrainian raids from second paragraph.)
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