The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday that it had carried out new “massive” strikes against military targets and electrical installations in Ukraine, the day after heavy Russian bombings across the country.
“Today, the Russian armed forces continued to carry out massive strikes with long-range, high-precision weapons, from land and sea bases, at military sites and electrical installations in Ukraine,” the spokesperson said. -spokesman of the ministry, Igor Konashenkov, assuring that all the objectives of these strikes had been achieved.
“The goal of the strikes has been fulfilled. All designated sites were hit,” he continued in this daily account, without specifying how many shots were fired and where they were conducted. He also assured that the Russian army had repelled Ukrainian attacks on several fronts in the south and east of the country.
“Three explosions at two infrastructure sites in the region”
Earlier in the day, Maksym Kozytski, governor of the Lviv region, announced that energy infrastructure had been hit on Tuesday by new strikes in western Ukraine.
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According to him, there were “three explosions at two infrastructure sites in the region”, while the mayor of the eponymous regional capital, Andriï Sadovy reported a “missile strike on critical infrastructure” which left 30% of the city without electricity.
Eleven presidents of Eastern European countries members of NATO on Tuesday condemned the recent Russian bombings of Ukrainian cities, calling them “war crimes”. In a statement issued by the Polish presidency, they also denounce as “unacceptable” any threat from Russia to use nuclear weapons.
Nineteen people were killed and 105 injured in Monday’s massive Russian strikes on Ukraine, according to a new preliminary toll announced on Tuesday by kyiv authorities.