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Russia Fires Over 70 Missiles In One Of Its Biggest Attacks On Ukraine


Russia fires more than 70 missiles in one of the biggest attacks on Ukraine

Rescuers work at the site of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.

Ukraine officials said Russia fired more than 70 missiles into Ukraine on Friday in one of the biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-largest city and forcing Kiev to take action. Nationwide emergency power cut.

Three people were killed when an apartment complex was hit by bullets in the center of Kryvyi Rih, and another was killed by shelling in Kherson to the south. Russian-installed officials in occupied eastern Ukraine said 12 people had died from Ukrainian shelling.

In a video address late in the evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia still had enough missiles for some larger-scale attacks and he again called on Western allies to supply Kiev. many better air defense systems.

Zelensky said Ukraine is strong enough to recover. “Whatever the rocket cultists from Moscow may hope for, it won’t change the balance of power in this war,” he said.

Kyiv warned on Thursday that Moscow was planning a new all-out offensive early next year, about a year after the February 24 invasion, in which large areas of Ukraine were hit by rockets. and artillery destroyed, but the Russian forces captured very little.

Russia has rained missiles on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure almost weekly since early October after several defeats on the battlefield, but Friday’s attack appears to have caused more damage than many. another attack, with snow and ice now spreading.

After some repairs, Ukrainian grid operator Ukrenergo lifted the state of emergency forcing it to impose a power cut. But Ukrenergo also warned that it would take longer to repair equipment and restore power than in previous bombing raids.

Ukraine’s air force said Russian warplanes flew near Ukraine to try to distract the country’s air defenses. The army chief said 60 of Russia’s 76 missiles were shot down, but Energy Minister German Galushchenko said at least nine power generation facilities were hit.

Moscow says the attacks are aimed at neutralizing the Ukrainian army. Ukrainians call them war crimes.

“They want to destroy us and make us slaves. But we will not surrender. We will endure,” said Lidiya Vasilieva, 53, as she sought shelter at a train station in the capital. Kyiv.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said late Friday that only a third of its residents have both heat and water and 40% electricity. He added that the metro system – a vital transport artery – remained shut down.

Zelensky appealed to Ukrainians to be patient and urged regional authorities to be more creative in arranging emergency energy supplies.

The northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest, was also badly affected, without power, heating and running water. Ukraine’s Interfax news agency quoted regional governor Oleh Synehubov as saying later on Friday that 55% of the city’s electricity had been restored and 85% in the surrounding area.

Liudmyla Kovylko, who cooks at an emergency food distribution point, said life had to go on. “We heard an explosion, the power went out. Everyone needed to be fed. We were cooking on a wood stove.”

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Russian forces make up about a fifth of Ukraine – to the south and east, and many soldiers are believed to have been killed and wounded on both sides in the fierce fighting, though both sides Neither released detailed reports on their troops’ casualties.

Officials planted by Russia say Ukraine’s latest shelling has killed civilians in two places.

Russia’s TASS news agency, citing emergency services, said 11 people were killed, 20 injured and 20 more missing in the village of Lantrativka near the border with Russia in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine. .

The Russian-appointed regional governor, Leonid Pasechnik, called the attack “barbaric”.

Reuters was unable to immediately verify the latest battlefield accounts.

Kyiv military spokesman Mykhailo Shamanov said Ukraine had shot down 37 of the 40 missiles fired at the Kyiv region, calling Friday’s salvo one of Russia’s heaviest.

Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote in a social media post: “The goal of the Russian Federation is to keep Ukrainians under constant pressure.

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The country has largely restored electricity and water supplies after previous attacks, but that task is getting more difficult.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Ukraine’s small and medium-sized businesses had already imported about half a million generators, but the country needed thousands more, larger and more powerful to weather the winter.

With no peace talks in sight, Ukrainian defense chiefs on Thursday predicted Russia would launch a new all-out offensive as early as next year, possibly including a second attempt to capture Kyiv. , where they tried and failed earlier this year.

A new attack could happen as soon as January, Zelenskiy, General Valery Zaluzhniy and General Oleksandr Syrskiy were cited in interviews with The Economist magazine.

They said the attack could be carried out from the eastern Donbas region, the south or neighboring Belarus.

A video by the Russian Defense Ministry shows Russian and Belarusian military exercises in Belarus using tanks, machine guns and drones and crossing a river. In Washington, White House spokesman John Kirby said there was no indication of any imminent move towards Ukraine from Belarusian territory.

Russia called its invasion a “special military operation” aimed at disarmament and “denuclearization” of Ukraine. Thousands of people have been killed, cities have been reduced to rubble and millions have been displaced from their homes in what the West calls imperialist land grabs.

(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and was automatically generated from an aggregated feed.)

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