Time.news – Russian attacks with Iranian-made drones that hit energy plants in Kiev have caused a series of blackouts emergency in the capital of Ukraine: the mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reports on Telegram, as reported by the UNIAN agency. “As a result of the night bombing of the capital, the energy infrastructure structures were damaged. There were emergency power outages in the city. As a result, the heat supply structures were disconnected, while the water supply is regular” , explains the mayor.
During the night, the city was attacked by Iranian “kamikaze” drones. Previously, the Ukrainian anti-aircraft destroyed 20 air targets. Kiev was not the only night target of Russian attacks: explosions were also reported in other regions. In particular, the Air Force and Anti-Aircraft Missile Forces destroyed 6 Shahed-type attack UAVs and a Kh-59MK2 high-precision guided missile directed in the direction of the city of Dnipro over the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, again according to the UNIAN news agency .
Meanwhile a battle is underway in Ukraine for control of a strategic highway in the east of the country, controlled by Russia. As British Defense Intelligence reports in its latest bulletin on what is happening on the warfield, “Russian and Ukrainian forces have been fighting for control of the P66 highway, north of the city of Kremina, in the Lugansk region, for five days, under Russian control”. It is, the analysis continues, “a key supply route for the northern section of the Russian front of Donbass from the Russian region of Belgorod. Its use was interrupted by Ukrainian artillery starting in October”, and if the Will Ukraine be able to regain control of it “most likely it would further undermine the Russian defense of Kremina”, assess British analysts.