Russia launched this Wednesday more than 70 missiles and a hundred drones against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. This attack, according to kyiv, left one dead and hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity or heating at Christmas.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin he deliberately chose Christmas Day to attack. “What could be more inhumane?” denounced his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodímir Zelenski.
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Zelensky specified that “more than 50 missiles” and some of the drones were shot down, but other attacks caused power outages in several regions of the country.
Russia hits six regions of Ukraine on Christmas
This “terror” is “Putin’s response to those who mentioned an illusory Christmas ceasefire“, declared the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Andrii Sibiga.
The attacks hit six regions of Ukraine, causing at least one death and six injuries and causing large heating outages in the middle of winteraccording to the country’s authorities.
In the city of Dnipro, in east-central Ukraine, an employee of a thermal power plant died, said the Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba.
In Kharkiv, the country’s second city, located in the northeast near the Russian border, half a million homes were left without electricityheating and hot water, according to the governor of the region, Oleg Sinegubov.
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The Ukrainian air force said having detected 78 Russian missiles and 106 drones, claiming to have shot down 59 and 54 respectively.
Since the start of the war in February 2022Russia has severely damaged Ukraine’s power grid with bombings that cause frequent blackouts.
The British Prime Minister, Keir Starmercondemned this Wednesday “the continued assault on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure,” and praised “the resistance of the Ukrainian people.”
(With information from AFP)
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